Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

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 think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes.

Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore.

I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.

I'm not going to change. I'm not going to start clubbing or going out in limos. I'm laid-back, and I'm going to stay that way.

Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding

I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.