Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

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.

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.

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.

Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.

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