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

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?

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.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.

... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

Without peace there is no development, and without development there is no peace

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.