The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.