To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.

The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.