The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

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

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.