But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see?

Your life can only be as beautiful as you repeatedly interpret it to be.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.

Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way

I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.