We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

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

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.