Success is often harder to take than failure.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.