Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

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.

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

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

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

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