Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

This is not new: people do business with people they like, know and trust. Taking that axiom in to account, would YOU trust YOU?

The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

Communication works for those who work at it.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.