Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

America is one long expectoration.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.