If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

The truth is never pure and rarely simple.