Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

I'm holding up, Lord willing and the creek don't rise.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

They look right. And you move left.

I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it's what I said.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

You are the weirdest girl ever.” “Please. You live with Eve.

The part that kills me is that you already know. I already told you everything!