When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.