People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

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

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

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

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.