Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.