Human life is quick. I do not mean: Life is short. I mean: The reason we feel like certain significant days happened only yesterday is because they did. Many of us have bodies that age preposterously out of proportion with how young we are. It’s like aging in theater time. We’re all seven-year-olds hired to play the parts of adults. A decade is not

Misogyny, like Roman Catholicism, is an institution built on faith. It has hierarchy, jokes, language, periodicals. Its believers insist on a theory with no proof. With proof to the contrary, even. Built into the system of maintaining the status quo is an ingenious method of casting aspersions on nonbelievers, and reasons why the “proof” must remai

Every human dies. But the bad news is that every day they act like they don’t know they’re alive. They lie or behave inconsiderately or cheat. Each one is a little death. Humans experience many little deaths before the final one.

The ego of the human male is by far the most dangerous aspect of human society. THIS HAS BEEN WELL-DOCUMENTED.

As long as there are budgets and finite human life spans, human opportunity is a pie. This is unlike a father or friend pie because you cannot control it and there are only a certain number of slices. Humans who insist opportunity is not a pie have usually enjoyed the majority of slices.

If when I explain human behavior you insist on logic, we won’t get far.

Il Piccolo Principe, she realizes, is not only a story about a pilot in the desert coming across a little boy. It is a parable about purpose. This recasts her understanding of the J girls, the Beautyland clerk, Mrs. Leafhalter. She closes the book at dawn, jittery with affection she longs to share. She faxes her superiors. What is essential is invi

Her mother’s voice makes Adina feel lonelier than when she doesn’t hear it. She tries to be out when she calls.

“Do you know,” she says, “there are people who when they ride in cars, only ride in cars? They don’t point things out to make the other person laugh, they don’t joke around or say anything interesting. They sit there. If they say anything it’s like, ‘Make a left at that Burger King.’ They don’t even joke about things like the Flying Man. It wouldn’