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

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

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

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.