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.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

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

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.