I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.