Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.