You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

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.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.