It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.