He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.