Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
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