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.

Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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

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.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.

Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

I think you've got something there, but I'll wait outside until you clean it up.

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order