we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

Beware the ire of the calm.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.