Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.