All my lovers asked me why they couldn't replace Mary, but it's simply impossible. The only friend I've got is Mary and I don't want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage. We believe in each other, that's enough for me.

Connie Booth – Polly Sherman

When he found the power to express what was in his heart, he found the love of a woman.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.

Can I call my mother? Tell her how much I love her?

There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Okay. You know, I lost my family. Wife divorced me. Kids won't even talk to me. And for what?

it is impossible for [him] to marry Nweke’s daughter

What love will make you do
All the things that we accept
Be the things that we regret.

Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.

I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. ... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.

Few people in the world get to hit their bosses but those who do will tell you it is better than sex.

Love. Hygiene. That's the important thing. Hygiene. The toughest thing in the world: [you] have to turn to your mate one night and say: "You gotta wash your ass!" Shit. Knowing how difficult it is, I said it for you : You Gotta Wash Your Ass.