We are not attracted to people because they are virtuous. In fact, there's something a little creepy about people who are too good. There is a big draw to people who are successful at breaking the rules. That means we end up admiring a lot of people that we think we shouldn't.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.

Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and kids’ll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.