Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.