You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.

Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".