When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

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

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.