"Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes."

"Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."

"Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice..."

"Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance."

"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."

"No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence."

"Don't buy problems, they're giving them away for free."

"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."

"For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?"

"I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort."