No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?