“Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.”

“Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.”

“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.”

“Romantic couples. Each room has its own flavor, its own feel.”

“Each couple is its own vaudeville act.”

“All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.”

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”