Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.