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.

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

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

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

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