In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.

Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.

Many try to force the past to change.

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.