diff --git a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/OkHttpClient.java b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/OkHttpClient.java
index e2fd6104a..bb4be687a 100644
--- a/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/OkHttpClient.java
+++ b/okhttp/src/main/java/com/squareup/okhttp/OkHttpClient.java
@@ -40,7 +40,17 @@ import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
 import okio.ByteString;
 
-/** Configures and creates HTTP connections. */
+/**
+ * Configures and creates HTTP connections. Most applications can use a single
+ * OkHttpClient for all of their HTTP requests - benefiting from a shared
+ * response cache, thread pool, connection re-use, etc.
+ *
+ * Instances of OkHttpClient are intended to be fully configured before they're
+ * shared - once shared they should be treated as immutable and can safely be used
+ * to concurrently open new connections. If required, threads can call
+ * {@link #clone()} to make a shallow copy of the OkHttpClient that can be
+ * safely modified with further configuration changes.
+ */
 public final class OkHttpClient implements URLStreamHandlerFactory, Cloneable {
 
   private final RouteDatabase routeDatabase;