Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.