That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

Funny thing about revenge. It could make a killer out of a nun.

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

[B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties.

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets. I'm one of those people who is like, "Let me tell you what happened today. You're never going to believe it!"

Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.