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.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I don’t like being alone.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Intimates are predestined.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

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

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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.

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.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

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

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

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.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.