It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.