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Have a clear point, and make it succinctly. That is, if you have one. You probably don’t know anything about what you’re doing when you’re first start

You will not find your true self through a series rational choices and consumptive experiences. Some things are not chosen, they simply are.

Thoughts are fleeting; they change with the times. Sometimes they’re random or intrusive. Often they’re unproductive and based more on fear than love.

We need to allow ourselves to be restless and bored, to be less preoccupied with the opinions of others, and to look honestly within ourselves. We nee

the film’s body horror is an effective metaphor for the torture traps of contemporary feminism and beauty culture, where superficial body positive mar

I used to confuse “rational rumination” with intuition. I used to think a lot—a lot—about other people and their motivations, the many problems of the

To tolerate life, as Gaitskill implores us to do, you first have to actually live in it — get up in the morning, take out the trash, eat breakfast, go

Our breakup was so protracted, in part, because our story was so, so good, and I wanted so badly for the story of our relationship to be the story of

He said, it just seems like it doesn’t make sense to get rid of all of — he paused — this. He was gesturing vaguely to something like our love, or our

Was I a good partner, or was I a bad partner? Did I hurt him, or did he hurt me? Was the great tragedy of our relationship that we’d been doomed from

And our phones don’t just move us out of our bodies, but they have become something of a second brain, a second body. You don’t have to remember somet

Today, everyone and everything is always available, and there’s nothing less sexy than that. There’s no chase. Our phones don’t allow us time to dwell

rich kids being able to do art for a living may be a reflection on their privilege but it seems to me like a reflection on the fact that a human that

And our phones don’t just move us out of our bodies, but they have become something of a second brain, a second body. You don’t have to remember somet

Media consumption simply does not cut it. If you want to separate yourself intellectually from your peers, develop serious interests and passions, fee

Eliminate the bad. In other words, don’t suck. The most basic thing you need to do at any job is simply be competent. This isn’t very hard to achieve,

Have a clear point, and make it succinctly. That is, if you have one. You probably don’t know anything about what you’re doing when you’re first start

love isn't a performance to be optimized or a test to be passed — it's a private language spoken between two people who choose, again and again, to ke

That person who was once your soulmate, may not be your person forever. That doesn’t make your relationship any less special, because ‘the one’ is mad

you can also spend your 20s exploring things, trying stuff out, figuring out your talents, and discerning your vocation. You probably aren’t that inte

I call my mother to ask if the emotions I feel are hereditary. My father is on the line, too, but I don’t dare ask the same question. My mother once t