“there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you’re young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.”

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Women feel safe with me as well they should, because not only am I morally objected at going too far, but physically I cannot do it.

There’s one thing I’ve always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you’re doing.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

There’s an old press-agents’ slogan that’s good advice: Don’t read your publicity – weigh it.

[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There’s only birth and death and the union of two people – and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.

The only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions – and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

I think Americans love success – but hate the people who have it.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.

There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.

To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.