A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

All men want their whores to be unhappy.

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.