Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

Realize the complicated specials of what we call the "inferiority complex." In other words, what, Miss Thing, is so damn special about you to make you feel so specially inferior to any other jerk?

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

Gays feel about popularity the same way teenage girls do. Is it that we really want friends we can count on, or do we just want guys around us whom we can share our curlers with?