Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.

As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Heartache, to her, coursed through everything--which was as it should be, since people needed it to make them kind.pg. 4

Life is too short to be on a diet.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.

You have to really kiss up to EVERYONE! Kiss up to anyone you think can help you. That's really the best advice I can give. You obviously have to have an act - but, maybe you don't.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.