Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.