Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

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

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.