Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.