Stanley Crouch Quotes

I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare.

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

A lot of cases, what makes you an interesting and complex person makes you a really horrible person to be with romantically.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

I love my wife... but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing - an old idea or new interpretation or any spark that relights the paradigms that comfort us - will keep us where we are, where it is safe.

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

Free love never works.

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.