Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.