Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.

People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages.

Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes.

Because the way love works in general, you don't need everybody to like you somewhat - you need one person to like you a lot.

Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.

Text is, in some ways, on the way out, unfortunately. There are dating sites now that are just pictures.

I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.

You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away.

Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.

What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.

When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.