Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
An idea is salvation by imagination.