Love-conquers-all is the dullest story in the world. In most of the interesting stories love conquers nothing whatever.
Sep 152021
Mating
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
—Goethe
Jul 192021
There exists in all men a thirst for the hunt, for predator stalking prey inexorably until it is caught and torn to shreds, that only reading Jane Austen can slake.
Jun 112021
Adults who wish to remain children don’t have them.
Jun 082021
The minor benefit of exercise is that it improves your health; the major one is that it improves your looks.
Nov 182020
Sex was a lot better in the movies when they weren’t allowed to show it.
Jul 242020
There are two fundamental types of crazy women: one wears her hair much too long, and the other much too short.
Jul 152020
Women dislike each other because of men, and so do men.
Jul 132020
Many supposed gold-diggers are digging not for gold but for the capacities that amassed it.
May 122020
Three’s a crowd — in love, in war, in software development.
Mar 192020
Marry a woman like yourself, and discover your flaws in her; or different, and let her discover them in you.