No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

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.

Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

A lot of people are alive because I shed too much hair to get away with murder.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.