Relational Insight Quotes

As a man, you will never know how a woman feels.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

If you're a guy, you have absolutely no idea what's going on at any time in the relationship, ever. Here's what you know: you know when you're getting laid, and you know when it's all over. Those are the only two things you're aware of.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

Each child should try to see in his parents the children they previously were. Each parent should try to see in his child the adult he seems to be becoming.

You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

I think it took us being apart to really understand... who we were as Individuals, outside of the Go-Go's.

Looking at him like that, I felt like I needed something from him, or somebody, and that probably meant that he also needed something from me, or somebody, but the revelation was like looking at spots on a slide. Knowing that it meant something to somebody wasn't the same as it meaning something to you.

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

No human beings are one-dimensional, and if they feel one-dimensional to you, it's because you don't know them.