People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.

I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.

Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you’re it.

You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally.

If you are being shuffled around, then you should feel shuffled around.