The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

When you are willing to be everything that you are, you become an infinitely creative source for everything in your life - including money.

My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

If it's needed for me to have a drop of Filipino blood, I am willing to get it from Makati Med. My heart really belongs here.

I took a step back. "Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.

Start three bars before something.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.