Quotes About Companionship

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.

I have a wonderful husband, sportswriter Peter Talbert.

At any given time, all of us have an empty spot: one that is calling for companionship, for example, or for justice, love, romance, or a belly laugh. When I sit down to write, I look to see what hole needs filling at that particular moment.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

To me, watching your spouse, somebody that you love, have an adventure - what is better than that?

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly!

I never had a go-to girl squad. I think that I'm only friends with loners, so I have a select group of loners that I hang out with individually.

The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.

When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.

There's a lot to be said about stability. So many people don't get married nowadays - you see it less and less - but it's a shame if you don't ever have that experience of sharing something with someone else. It's a real shame.

If a couple of people are watching I feel better than in a full stadium.

Having a Weim means never having to work alone again. I have two Weims. When they think I've been working too long, they stage an intercession.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

I wish all men were like dogs.

We die alone, but we live among men.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.