"It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves."

"The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask."

"Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac."

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"Everybody always knows something, even if it's something they don't know they know."