Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.