Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.
Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.
I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now.
There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.
I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.
The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and saddest you've ever been in your whole life.
When the house is blown up, there’s nothing to shut or open.
Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come
There's never a better way of living than just improving our quality of life.
I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.