Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay.

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

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.