#relationships

"Life, it’s made up of two things—time and love. A watch tells one, but what tells the other? We tell each other."

"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."

"Campbell's Soup: M'm! M'm! Good!... ...even though our products have more sodium than the Dead Sea."

"New Year Resolutions I [10w] Change my voice;unclog my ears;open my heart."

"Wheaties: Breakfast of Champions... who'll endorse any product for a price."

"I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime."

"Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered."

"Tweeting is talking into the abyss, filling a void in your life by avoiding real human contact."

"Poetry is a Ladder {C☰O☰U☰P☰L☰E☰T} {The poet's job is to create a ladder} {for the reader to enter his imagination}and☰once☰they've☰climbed☰u­p☰to☰the ☰top☰remove☰each☰rung☰by☰grad­ation"

"When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth."

"He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul."

"A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man."

"Marriage [10w] The only thing better than forgiveness in marriage is forgetfulness."

"The best defense is a confusing offense."

"You might think that a boy is just your friend, but then if you find out that maybe he likes you (in a boyfriend way), everything changes instantly. (47)"

"Closets Opening and Closing [10w] + [10w] You can take sweet gay men out of the closet;you can't take the closet out of the master-bedroom suite."

"Instead of a vow of silence, I took a vow of invisibility. At that time you were looking for someone to love, and that’s why you couldn’t see me."

"Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart"

"My love is expansive. Your love is expensive."

"Yams vs. Sweet Potatoes vs. Cassava vs. Popeye [10w] "I am that I am that I am a yam."