by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.