Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

The secret is that there is no secret.

The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.

Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.