A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Hatred is settled anger.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

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

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Love is trembling happiness.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.