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.

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

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.

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.

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.