When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

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

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.