cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.

People who are good to each other make each other good.

cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.