Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

All hurt is founded on attachment to anything regardless of its nature. When we detach we vibrationally send ourselves back into the flow of life.

Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor.

She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence

I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.