How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

There are no really new stories anymore.

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.