Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the...

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief–acceptance.

For our first date we went Dutch. We would have gone another nationality, but they are the tallest.

Submitted for your approval–the curious case of Colleen O’Brien and thegorgeous time traveling Scot who landed in her living room.” – Rod Serling

The way my vacuum cleaner sucks up cat hair, I shouldn’t have been surprised when it huffed up my mustache. But I was surprised it sucked out all the love and romance in our relationship.

I have to wonder if you’re not being slightly naive here. I mean, are you saying that you want nothing for people? You have no motives? Everybody has motives. Name the person, the circumstances, I’ll...

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku.

Her boyfriend can’t hold a candle to me. Especially not while I’m holding the strobe light. It’s hard to do modern dancing when you’re living like it’s 1882. Still, I make it look pretty easy.

The structure of straight coupledom still represents an appropriation of the physical and psychic energy of women to benefit men. And insofar as gay people re-create the straight couple, this structure of violence, domination, and...

My girl didn’t step out on me. She just stood in the doorway and wouldn’t close the door.

I had a dream about you. You took control of my body and forced me to have sex with you. Then you called the cops, and the police said I raped you—but I was the...

They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love.

People are more likely to like you if you treat them with respect and Linseed oil.

Men’s loyalty to their women dies hard – and almost always too late. (“I’m Dangerous Tonight”)

Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself! And terrifying that the terms of love are so rigorous, its checks and...

This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience – it looks for a way of being constructive.Love is not possessive.Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of...

It was my grandmother who first told me that a woman marries a man in the belief that he’ll change but he doesn’t — and a man marries a woman in the belief that she...

And no one, no one should know what passes between husband and wife if they love one another. And whatever quarrels there may be between them they ought not to call in their own mother...

Two heads are better than one because the more people that get involved, the easier it is to reach an agreement. This is why committees are so efficient.

I’m older now than my dad was when he was my age. Wait, that’s not right. That’s not my dad at all, that’s just some stranger hanging around in my memory.

I’m not just a guy’s guy. I also have a mom.

I found out who my real dad is on Facebook. I also found out who he isn’t. He isn’t the man I thought he isn’t.

Women, if I understood them half as well as I understand fractions, I’d have said a third. But I don’t have time for a third, or even my other half, because I spend all my...

How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Sometimes you have to know what you’re willing to sacrifice to be the person you are meant to be.

All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its...

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of...

I can’t help it. You bring it out in me,” he accused. “No,” I said. “You’re choosing to let me get to you. Don’t. It’s all in the mind.

Never forget,Each day that we have together is a precious gift.In the web of daily living, we are creating character.Let’s take the time to create memories, listen and observe.Time flees, and it does not return.If...

I don’t deserve you. I’m not made for relationships. I know I’m going to fuck this up. I’m going to drive you away or do something to hurt you, and you’ll be added to my...

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.

Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnellleaving is not enough; you muststay gone. train your heartlike a dog. change the lockseven on the house he’s nevervisited. you lucky, lucky girl.you have an apartmentjust your size. a bathtubfull...

So where does the name Adam’s apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in...

Beware of fame; for when they come for you, they come not to give, but for to gain.Whoever is needed, wields the most power.Whoever is needy, seeks to wield that power.

A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.

There is such a shelter in each other.

Whether our caretaker was our mom, dad, uncle, aunt, grandparent, foster parent, or sibling, our blueprint of what a relationship is supposed to look like is drafted by what we observed from our caretaker’s relationship....

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As I saw it, all my mother’s life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles.She wasbuoyant by nature;she wanted to travel,go to the theater, go to museums.What he wantedwas to lie...

If you keep holding on to the past, the pain will never go away.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.

Some guys like to undermine a girl’s self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn’t hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater...

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of awareness to mark the boundary line.

I had a dream about you last night… it was raining and you were fishing for fire to set a sandcastle a flame.

Ne zaman kadın olduğunu sen bileceksin. O anı fark edeceksin. Ama bana sorarsan, kalbinin kırıldığı anlardan birinde oluyor bu. Daha önce varlığını bile bilmediğin yerinden kırılan kalbine, kırıktan giren ışık önce seni zehirleyecek, sonra felç...

Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.