In this collection, Haskell writes about what I want to write about: small psychologically centered moments in the lives of people we already think we know. Using these insights, the reader can learn more about Jackson Pollock, or Capucine, or Orson Welles than what is necessarily presented in a non-fiction biography. Even though these insights come from Haskell and not the actual people, one gets a sense of the universal truth in all of our struggling for happiness or reason for action. To a certain extent the results of our actions can make us happy or unhappy or no emotion at all, but eventually these results move beyomd us to an unstoppable fate-like force that drives us on the path we set. Resistance to this force is available if one is a fundamentally resisting person, in the case of Prince Hal to Orson Welles' Falstaff.