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

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

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.

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

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

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.

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.