When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

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

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

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

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.