Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

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

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

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?

Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.

Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.

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