‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Marriage is the death of hope.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Disagreement is something normal.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

I always wanted a family.

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.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

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

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

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

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.