Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.