We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.