Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn’t treat us by rule?