When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.