Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.