Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more

I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world

Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man

you see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't