You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.