A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.