Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.

...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.

Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home.

...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.

We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.

Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.

The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

Freedom gives room for creativity.

People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer son of the morning!

When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.