We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."