Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much