Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

Everything is intimateNothing is personal

Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.