You're not the first man who has made such a mistake, and found he was barking up the wrong tree.

These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.

I'd take requests on the telephone / I'm on a wavelength far from home

We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this - if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.