Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Vice is its own reward.

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

Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.