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

Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.