No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

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.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.