dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

I may not remember, but I never forget.

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.