Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

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

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.