Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.