People in New York have extremely narrow horizons. The parochialism of the center is always greater than that of the provinces. In the provinces, they keep an eye on the center, but in the center they just gaze lovingly at themselves with both eyes.
-Leon Wieseltier

I'd had all these professors from Harvard in graduate school, and they didn't want to know what I really knew, which was how to behave at a debutante party in Fort Worth. They wanted to know about cowboys. 
-Dave Hickey

It's the best depiction of a friendship that I've ever read, an 843-page expansion on a comment Dizzy Gillespie made after his friend Charlie Parker died: "He was the other half of my heartbeat."

The problem lies with the one who is giving more but receiving less. We consider this situation to be unhealthy or damaging. Continue this lopsided relationship and there will be a cost. Which do we really need - to give love or receive it? We resist the question b/c we want to say both. Yet Scripture seems to favor the imbalance. Not that we aspire to have our friend or spouse love us less, but that “in humility [we] consider others better than [our]selves” (Phil 2:3). When the kingdom of God is ruling our hearts, we aspire more to serve than be served, honor more than be honored, and love more than be loved. This doesn’t mean that we don’t care about being loved; it simply means that we always want to outdo others in love. -Ed Welch