We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can’t help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as...

…there is also an underlying, less specific fear – what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety – that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We...

When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world that I have created in my mind and in my own image,...