Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don't believe in it for long.

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.