Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

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.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.