The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.
[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.
Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.
It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.