The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.