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

We learn nothing by being right.

Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

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

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.