If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.