quote of the week

"He is too serious, he knows that, too willing to believe - and deaf to the comedy of mismatched couples and unseemly flesh. To comfort himself, he imagines the separate layers of his brain: there are spaces there, cavities that exist between the forces of sex and work. What is he to do with these fixed voids? Other people know. He's never known."
(Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993))