You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

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.

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.

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.

The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.

Everything said is said by someone.

Remembrances last longer than present realities.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.