[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

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

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.