All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

I've triedto become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

We take the most difficult relationship of our childhood... and we MARRY it.

Sometimes while you are so passionately busy building, there will be others as busy destroying. Do not stop. One day you will notice how high above you get, and how down below they end up

Even between the best of friends, mistakes and misunderstandings can happen.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.

The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.

Escape your situation through your mind and your actions.

See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal).

The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks