Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
The desire to perform impedes conversation.
Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.
I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.
Even boredom has its crises.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.
