Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.