Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

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

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.