Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

Acne may be good at destroying self-confidence, but Proactiv+ is good at destroying acne.

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.

I don’t think any relationship responds well to pressure.