We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

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.

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.

There is no better high than discovery.

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

Characteristics cling to families.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness?

It doesn't matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it's how you wear them and your attitude that counts.

Better not to exist than live basely.