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

Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.

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

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

There are problems connected with infidelity and problems connected with being faithful at any cost, and I am for letting those concerned choose the problems they'd prefer. There need not be one rule for all. Infidelity is enlarging and fragmenting and very very dangerous, but it has been known to retrieve people as well as marriages, so it can't be only bad.

The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.