Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.