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

My friends are my estate.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing – not the ‚what happens‘ but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

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

You can’t trust very many people.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Fear is real, but so is love.

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

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

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

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

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.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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.‘

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

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.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

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.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

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.