Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.

Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.