The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
Keep your lies short and simple.
Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.
The young are amazed when they suffer.
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.