The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

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

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

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

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

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Men want to make women happy.

Solitude is independence.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

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

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

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

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.

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

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

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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

I always wanted a family.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn’t allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn’t do anything with my classmates.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

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 let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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.