There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.

Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

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.

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