Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.