There is so much dishonesty in every single one of us, perhaps for perfectly good scientific reasons. We’re hard at work all the time protecting our most sensitive areas with armor and bizarre distractions. Maybe the organism can’t survive without lies. Maybe it takes a steady balance of deceit in and out to maintain homeostasis. [...]

Previous events have shown that it’s all too easy for me to forget something crucial at the last minute. Now I try too hard to keep the crucial things in mind and miss most of what’s going on. If there hasn’t been a last minute in a long, long time, just an unbroken stretch of [...]