cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be eroded by someone else. If a woman has a sense of identity that does not depend on finding that identity in someone else, she cannot lose her identity in someone else. And so we return to the central fact: it is necessary to be.

Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.