You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Never explain, never complain.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.