We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

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

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.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.