Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.