One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.