Eternity is really long, especially near the end.

What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be."

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.