Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.