Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.

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.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.