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.

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

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

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

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.