There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.