In an ideal world, marriage vows would be entirely rewritten. At the alter, a couple would speak thus: We accept not to panic when, some years from now, what we are doing today will seem like the wors...
In an ideal world, marriage vows would be entirely rewritten. At the altar, a couple would speak thus: We accept not to panic when, some years from now, what we are doing today will seem like the wors...
Hoe machtig onze technologie en hoe complex onze ondernemingen ook mogen zijn, het opmerkelijkste kenmerk van onze moderne arbeid is uiteindelijk misschien wel iets wat in onszelf zit, een aspect van...
Every writer is obliged to create his own language, as every violinist is obliged to create his own tone…. I don’t mean to say that I like original writers who write badly. I prefer—and perhaps it’s a...
Epicurus founded a school of philosophy which placed great emphasis on the importance of pleasure. Pleasure is the beginning and the goal of a happy life, he asserted, confirming what many had long th...
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong...
Although it often struggles to be heard in respectable circles, there is an alternative to the Christian-Romantic tenet that sex and love should always be inseparable. The libertine position denies an...
A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace...
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.
این نشانه هوشمندی است که بپذیریم ما هم به لطف و محبت، ثبات و راهنمایی نیاز داریم درست مثل آنچه کودکان ما نیاز دارند.
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous.
What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.
We should give chaos pride of place once a year or so, designating occasions on which we can be briefly exempted from the two greatest pressures of secular adult life: having to be rational and having...
There is usually a Marxist moment in every relationship, the moment when it becomes clear that love is reciprocated.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or even lived in a way which was so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it fr...
The whole art of living is to make use of the individuals through whom we suffer.
The partner truly best suited to us is not the one who miraculously happens to share every taste, but the one who can negotiate differences in taste with intelligence and grace.
Silence and clumsiness could of course be taken as rather pitiful proof of desire. It being easy enough to seduce someone towards whom one feels indifferent, the clumsiest seducers could generously be...
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.