It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.