A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.

One of the main roles of our financial problems is to weed out our fake friends.

Things such as the idea of family and that of friendship are a sign of spiritual barbarism.

A friend is way less likely than a boyfriend or girlfriend to make us pretend to be someone we are not; or that our family is a good family, or way better, or way less crazy or dysfunctional than it actually is.

Our friends are often secretly made happy, or less unhappy, by their finding out about our problems, because that reminds them that they are not the only ones who have problems; that some people’s problems are way bigger than theirs; or that some people, unlike them, have real problems.

Some confidants have wings and a beak, or four legs and a tail.

It is not easy to keep a friend convinced that you still deserve to be kept as a friend, especially if you hate lying.

You can be a friend to someone who is to you not a friend.

We, when invited to hang out with and by our friend, are often a Plan B, a Plan C, or even a Plan P.