Being a child is in itself a profession.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

Wine is a civilizing agent.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.