The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.

One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

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

There are some decisions in life that only you can make.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.