Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

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

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.