There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Hearts live by being wounded.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.