The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.