Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, "Hello, how are you?

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

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

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

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

There may be a point in your life in which you are drowning so fast and fighting it so furiously that you don't have the strength left to call out for help. At that point don't expect one of your friends to jump into the water, if you've spent most of your life instructing them to mind their own business.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.