You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.
Woody AllenAbysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see againโฆ I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene OโNeill were laughing.
Woody AllenI was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen