Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.