“There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.”

…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.

His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.

The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.

They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos.

I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn’t matter much. But people want to label everything… So I guess I seem indifferent in that way.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.

There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam.

This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.

The distinction between right and wrong (“la distinction du bien et du mal”, Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition.

A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.