It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

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

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

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

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

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

[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.