There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

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.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.