Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.