“A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.”
“Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.”
“Conversations and jokes together, mutual rendering of good services, the reading together of sweetly phrased books, the sharing of nonsense and mutual attentions.”
“Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.”
“I seem to have mastered a certain amount of control over physical reality.”
“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”