I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

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

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.