A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

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

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.