The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
Jealousy knows more than truth does.
I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
“With The Thousand and One Nights”, I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them.
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.