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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.”

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

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