men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

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

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

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.

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.

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.