Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.