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A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

I didn’t come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I’ve never had a huge circle of friends. I can’t spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can’t do that with everyone.

I have a very intense marriage.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.