Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

It’s an odd term, 'girlfriend,' particularly for grown persons. And in practice it provides an even odder concept. Generally speaking, in adults it described a woman, not a girl, who was willing to provide sex, not friendship. In fact, from what I had observed it was quite possible for one to actively dislike one’s girlfriend, although of course true hatred is reserved for marriage.

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is