Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Technology favors horrible people.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.