Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

It's shocking the things we call love.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.

See, regardless of what anybody believes who hates me; you ain't gonna make or break me.

People don't want to be 'marketed to'; they want to be “communicated with.

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.