People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

Better to separate than never to marry.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.