Arm yourself with as many options as possible before making your next move.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

If you don't like potlucks, the solution to your problem is "don't go to potlucks," not "insist other people don't have them."

Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

This one time I made love on the back seat of a car and the police came and shined his light on me, and I said I'm strokin'. That's what I'm doing, I be strokin'.

The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great

The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership.

Everyone can say 'I Love You' but not everyone really means it, so believe it when you feel it, not when you hear it.

People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.