Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

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.

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

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.