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.

It takes three to make a child.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

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

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

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

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

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 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.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

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.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

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

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

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.

Men want to make women happy.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

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

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

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

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

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.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

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

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

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

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.