The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.

Being single is like being an artist, not because creating a functional single life is an art form, but because it requires the same close attention to one's singular needs, as well as the will and focus to fulfill them. Just as the artist arranges her life around her creativity, sacrificing conventional comforts and even social acceptance, sleeping and eating according to her own rhythms, so that her talent thrives above all else, nurtured the way a child might be, so a single person has to think hard to decipher what makes her happiest and most fulfilled.

In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-human mediators of loneliness and solitude.

Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... Her... Alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her.

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.