In love as in art, good technique helps.
Few things are worth doing perfectly.
Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.
Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.
We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.
Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.
As night falls, every joy glows brighter.
I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.
Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.
Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.
Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.
Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
Young men preen. Old men scheme.
If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.
I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.
Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
The best propaganda omits rather than invents
As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.
Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
