There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

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

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

All you need is love.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

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

I rely on other people every day of my life.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

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

Friends are thieves of time.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

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.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

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.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

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