Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.