Paradox likes contradictions with exits.
The rich are happier than we are, and should be.
The rich feel full of merit.
My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.
The neuroses parody the virtues.
A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.
Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.
The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.
The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.
The closeups of pornography make human genitals look like undiscovered prehistoric animals.
Pornography supplies the only really safe sex.
Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.
The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.
My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.
Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.
Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.
A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.
Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.
Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.
Promiscuity turns sex into a sport, like arm-wrestling.
Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.
It's no good being exclusive if nobody wants in.
Elegance thrives on exclusion.
Tears are great peace-makers.
