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

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.

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

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.

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.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.