Eating is sex for old people.

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.