Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

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

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.