The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.