“Love your spirited child for who she is. Because she is more, she will make you more.”

“Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't.”

“Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.”

“I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.”

“If you do not know why you should love your wife as a man, love her because she is more emotionally oriented.”

“It doesn't work like that," she said, and I was hoping she would tell me how it did work.Maybe she could see that, because she went on. "Sometimes you're loved because of your weaknesses," she said. "What you can't do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.”