The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

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

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.