“Perhaps the error in choosing retaliation is that, when we eliminate one enemy, we inevitably create two or more.”

“He wasn't terrified of nature's realities for he was naturally a good animal and instinctively knew how to survive.”

“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.”

“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.”

“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. ”

“My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.”

“When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.”