Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

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.

Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

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.

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

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.