For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.