Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .
Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.
I hope you live a life you're proud of...
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.