Shaw writes as if it were always midday.
The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.
Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.
The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.
Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.
You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?
Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.
I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.
Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.
Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.
F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.
To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.
Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.
We understand through resemblance.
I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.
Complainers detest each other.
Insecurity is not just a state of mind.
Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.
The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.
A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.
