The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

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.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.