A Woman Should Be An Illusion

It's No Good Protecting People Or Even Looking After Them Past A Certain Point. One Can't Grasp More Than A Piece Of Anyone. Most Of The Rest Can Only Be Protected By Themselves And The Remainder By Hired Specialists And Doctors And Dentists And Professional Protectors.

I'm Getting Very Sorry For The Devil And His Disciples Such As The Good Le Chiffre. The Devil Has A Rotten Time And I Always Like To Be On The Side Of The Underdog. We Don't Give The Poor Chap A Chance...the Devil Had No Prophets To Write His Ten Commandments And No Team Of Authors To Write His Biography.

Just As, At Least In One Religion, Accidia Is The First Of The Cardinal Sins, So Bordom, And Particularly The Incredible Circumstance Of Waking Up Bored, Was The Only Vice Bond Utterly Condemned.

It Was The Short Men That Caused All The Trouble In The World.

I Would Stay Away From Him And Leave Him To Go His Own Road Where There Would Be Other Women, Countless Other Women, Who Would Probably Give Him As Much Physical Pleasure As He Had Had With Me. I Wouldn’t Care, Or At Least I Told Myself That I Wouldn’t Care, Because None Of Them Would Ever Own Him—own Any Larger Piece Of Him Than I Now Did.