Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

A real man doesn't stand behind his woman... He stands next to her

Don't cross the boundaries.

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.