People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.