Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.