A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.
Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.
Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
I tell you this, and I tell you plain What you have done, you will do again You will bite your tongue, careful or not Upon the already-bitten spot
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.
You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.
It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.
