Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

What is privacy if not for invading?

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.)

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

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.