Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

life is a succession of readjustments.

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?