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

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

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