"The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron."

"There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable."

"Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want."

"Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the portholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother."

"Yes Madame, I am drunk but you are ugly and tomorrow I'll be sober."

"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others."

"Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination."

"Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?"

"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new."

"Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied."

"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters."