Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.