On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.