We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. - John Updike

We hope the "real" person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell.

[Pru] "...He's still trying to work out what you two did to him, as if you were the only parents in the world who didn't keep wiping their kid's ass until he was thirty. I tell him: Get real, Nelson. Lousy parents are par for the course. My God. Nothing's ideal."

No act is so private it does not seek applause.