I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.