Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.
If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason
The prison is the state writ small.
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.
The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.
Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.
A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.
Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.
The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.
Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.
Winning means outlasting everyone else.
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.
Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.
Discontented women dream of being rescued by Prince Charming. Discontented men dream of finding a horny blond in the back seat ofa taxi.
