Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.