He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

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

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.