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

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Intimates are predestined.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

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

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I always wanted to be loved.

I never fall in love.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Friends are thieves of time.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.