If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.