At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.