We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

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

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.