He lit his pipe again, smiling to himself quietly, with that painful smile of his, as though he were enjoying a joke that hurt him. - William Somerset Maugham

I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.

Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.