Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.