A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future

Don’t answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you’re joking.

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as “seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

How could you love us being together?” he asked me “We are nothing alike and we are not meant for each other and we drive each other crazy, you love that? How can you love...

First, they set the hook with mind-bending kinky shit. Then a year later you’re living in a Talking Heads song, dressed like Teddy Ruxpin, living with a strange woman in a big house full of...

Determining when not to overestimate and when not to underestimate is a crucial skill that is not easily acquired. But it’s unspeakably important to be able to know when not to underestimate, for example, another...

A relationship that is not actively nurtured dies out eventually, I told myself. Or does it?

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

I held Angie Luna in that room for hours, and I remember the different times we made love like epochs in a civilization, each movement and every touch, apex upon abyss. In the luxury of...

I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.

Love is not the perfect match, love is the connection between two people.

I had a dream about you. You were wearing Sylvester Stallone’s sneer as pants, but his lips were saggy on your legs, so you had to wear a mustache as a belt.

You are a blue rose, Letti. It’s almost impossible that you exist amongst the other roses but you do. You bring wonder to those who are lucky enough to find you.

You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of your life rather than letting it take over every part of you

What a blessing to love someone so much that you long for them at the core of your being. At the same time, when you are separated from that person, that longing is a torture...

I don’t know,” she said. “We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married....

Sometimes it’s your fragrance that comes to me, out of the blue, on a crowded road in a Sunday afternoon.But more often, it’s memories of us that cross my mind almost every lone evening.All I...

One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable.

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.

Once I had a wild fling on an otherwise boring weekend holiday in Edinburgh, with a guy I met who turned out to be a psychiatrist. He agreed with me, after hours and hours of...

When I’d remember this night in weeks, months, or even years, it wouldn’t be the sex. Sex would fade and so would the need to be filled with him, but right now I felt him...

Happiness has no time limits or conditions; the only requirement is to give it away.

Relationships, like all human experiences, are transient; they change every day and are meant to be enjoyed in the present. When I hear people say you need to “work” at a relationship, what that often...

Never lose sleep over someone who is not worth staying awake for.

In truth, people know very little about each other. I only know as much about you as I know about myself.

Guys have a mental calendar of days in the week, and below the days are empty boxes. On days when they have sex, the box gets a checked. The check mark means all is good...

Don’t get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.

Every little girl wants a prince, a prince who only has eyes for her…but who are we kidding…there’s no such thing as fairytales. Don’t get me wrong…the world is full of dragons and damsels…just not...

Miscommunication is endless.

I guess, but . . . it’s more about creating the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. Youknow?

I had this dream about you last night. We were still married. I was giving you a haircut, like I always did, being careful to trim around the scar on the back of your head....

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a...

It’s hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we’ve ended a good fight.

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

Our love went from fly to flower to butterfly, and it was meant to beautifully flutter, not sit still on a shelf like a trophy to be collected.

Do you really think that you stop looking for a soulmate at our age? Do you honestly believe that God would stop caring about how much I needed it still, just because I am nearing...

I drank her essence, and it’s like she never existed and now I’m thirsty again. Let this be a lesson in love.

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?’The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it’s rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says...

For the funeral I needed a plus one, so I rented a hooker. And then I rented a movie. Rest in peace Grandpa, or whoever you were.

It’s better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn’t want to be there.

Anything disguised as anything is chameleon. A ghost disguised as an unobservable and invisible object is a great example. Still, that’s easier to see than the love my ex wife had for me.

I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and...

Wrong Way,” and I thought, I agree. So I turned around and went home.

Intimacy between people requires closeness as well as distance. It is like dancing. Sometimes we are very close, touching each other or holding each other; sometimes we move away from each other and let the...

I had a dream about you. We were traveling in your car. You were driving, and I was securely fastened by ropes and duct tape in the trunk. I tried telling you my family has...

I’d like to build a boat out of those little wooden planks that Starbucks provides to stir your coffee. The boat will be dedicated to our love, and it will take a lifetime to complete.

More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and...

Your life is too precious to be disrespected

People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don’t make close friends is because they’re too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.