what you fear, you invite.

Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.

Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.

... law is a substitute for love.

At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.