If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.