To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

My soul has gained the freedom of the night

It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.