I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

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

No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.

When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.