The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?