I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.