patience is an integral part of talent.

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

A woman who is loved always has success.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.