“A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.”

“A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.”

“On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman.”

“THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn--or worse, indifference--cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.”

“The most exquisite joy is a sting to the heart, and love -- love is a crisis of the soul.”

“No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.”

“Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.”