All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.

From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.