A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don’t think about them, because of the way you are.

I met [my editor] in a bar where alcoholic beverages are served and I bought her one and I told her the idea. And she said that she liked it very much, which embarrassed me because I thought it meant that she was a lightweight and that in the morning, as so many women say to so many men, what seems like a good idea, you know, turns out not to be.

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

No reality has the power to dispel a dream.

What do your parents know, about surviving?