Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

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.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

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

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.