Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

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

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

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

Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.