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

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

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

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved.