First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

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.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.