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

The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.

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

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.