If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries.

Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him."

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

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

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