The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, "a centrifugal tendency." In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.