“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were aski...”

“That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.”

“The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.”

“Every second counts”

“If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.”

“I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”