Never presume yours is a better morality.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.