Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

I don't write about my life in my column.

the truth is often a mixed message

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

I'm a morning person, so rising at 4-something on weekends is not a huge challenge for me. I am not, however, much of a morning eater - not at that hour, at least.

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.

I'm not involved with the female world.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.