(Remember you always have the option of taking to the sea.)

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.

I look for beauty every day and find it everywhere. My bliss in enhanced!

Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.

Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon.

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

I don't see any coronation coming my way

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.