“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

With thought, all problems can be resolved.

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

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Time is the best killer.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.