What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

Children: a torment and nothing more.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly