Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Life would be dull without them.