It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.