Many gloat over their own troubles.
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Listening to people keeps them entertained.
Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Malice is always authentic and sincere.
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
Never try to leap from a standstill.
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
