The thing about loving and being loved in return, wonderful though it is, is there's such an insuperable amount of luck in finding the people with whom that will work that I'm a little uneasy thinking of it as entirely learnable.

"Anything for a weird life" and "Be excellent to each other" are approaches that have worked surprisingly well for being so easily compacted into so small a space. Don't have a similarly pithy one for making the effort to communicate, though, and I would not mind one.

In some ways these rather old entries of mine (analytic of my worldview's basics, descriptive/inspirational quotations) touch on this between them about as well as anything I have said since, I think.