genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

Fear and hate create separation, love and joy creates belongingness and wholeness.

It is enough to know, too much to see.

Oh, man, " he mumbled with a full mouth. "At least the food is good.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."

A happy marriage is the world's best bargain.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?