He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.

Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.

There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.

We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

What we love we may also despise.

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.

his conscience washed clean by happiness.

We are born crying, and for good reason, ' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.

He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the other party.

The greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear.

As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.