Aspiring to fame is aspiring to a life of small talk.

Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, 'By the grace of this behavior, this individual has found it possible to continue.

In a long relationship, you learn exactly what to do to get each other off. It becomes mechanical. But you also learn exactly what to do to enrage each other. It becomes mechanical. The pleasures of a long relationship are the things that you never quite learn about the other—the ways in which you remain strangers.

I was like that once, and I'm not like that anymore.

Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By the grace of this behavior, this individual has found it possible to continue.

The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear. Then rewrite it, praying you'll finish in time to send a new version by morning.