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

No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.