There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.

The great love was displayed for us at cavalry

Perhaps, in a few people, I have seen what can be described as a struggle with death, and it can be distressing to behold. But for the vast majority of people death is gentle, tender.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

...it is hard to throw off long-established love:hard, but this you must managed somehow

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

The way I feel about you, it's like I finally understand what Lionel Richie is singing about. I mean, what we have, it's like movie love.

Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.