It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.

It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.

Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.

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

Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

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

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.