I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.

Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.