The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.

It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good to be a dog, I thought. You would feel safe surrounded by all of these leggy objects that never tried to run away.

Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.