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

If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.

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

The thing about sex is not that you're naked physically, but if you do it right, that you're naked emotionally.

A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

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.

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