He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.

Focus on someone else’s problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on you’ll have to live in a world you didn’t make up. Horrible thought.

He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.

This is how God made me. You are how God made you. All God's chillun are made how God made 'em. You think God made a mistake, take it up with Him.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.