Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Money: power at its most liquid.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

The time I kill is killing me.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.