Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

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

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.

What you call types of mind are only mental ages.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.