1. “Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
2. “If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.”
3. ”Men get laid, but women get screwed.”
4. "Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."
5. "Sex is the last refuge of the miserable."
6. ”There are three reasons for becoming a writer. The first is that you need the money; the second, that you have something to say that you think the world should know; and the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.”
7. “The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.”
8. “To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”
9. "To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."
