Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take note: a wife like that never needs to fear bubbling away the last of her life through a cut throat.

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.