We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.