Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

Sex is ... scratching an itch Everything else is something we project on a very simple act. It's the psychology, not the biology, that's complicated.