always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.