Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.