When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.