I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

Love delayed is lust augmented.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?