Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.