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.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.