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

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.

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.

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.

I always imagined that cats were the Paris Hiltons of the pet world: They didn't quite deserve all the attention but they got it anyway.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

And I certainly intend to direct someday.

I only judge people by the depth of their squat.

Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out.

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.