Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

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

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.