Sex

M. said she didn't know how to love, that's why she was still in therapy and didn't have a partner. Intimacy is difficult, it's one thing to have sex and another to achieve intimacy, sex can sustain a relationship for three years, tops, then a relationship needs to deepen, become something it hadn't been but needed to be for both partners.

One hundred thirty years after Charles Dickens we're finally living in the best of times and worst of times. The majority agrees the age is magical and that great progress has been made in medicine and the communication arts. Some believe the future is bright, and some think they're unlucky to be made to live through it.

I'm drawn to people who say things like, "if I died tomorrow I'd have had a great life." It's irresistible, the kind of saying that takes off all its clothes right in front of you, and takes off all your clothes too.

Being honest is really sexy. So is looking at the ocean all by yourself, if you look at it a certain way.