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

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.