I want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust.

“Being a freak isn’t the same thing as having a talent.”

“The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no …”

“And now here Annie was, allowing her day to become gloriously colored by a comm…”

“I didn't say anything. But I could have pointed out that most life-changing say…”