It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.