The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

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

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

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.