A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.