Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

My wife and I love each other very much.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

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.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

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.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

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.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

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

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

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.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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.

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’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

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.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

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

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

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

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.