Sublime

someone who used to go to church at least once per month but now goes less than once a year.

romantic delirium.

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to a minimum. And, of course, a way of convincing ourselves that some versions are truer than others – that some are special.

A good man—what comes to mind when you think of a that? Often it’s someone in baggy khaki pants and unpolished shoes with a tucked-in polo shirt that doesn’t fit properly. He spends his life wrestling with insecurities and trying not to do bad things.

invest your life in money over relationships, and the returns will not satisfy.

human sexuality,

AT its best monogamy may be the wish to find someone to die with; at its worst it is a cure for the terrors of aliveness. They are easily confused.