“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”

“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had”

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

“Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.”

“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”