what you fear, you invite.
At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.
money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.
... law is a substitute for love.
Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.
Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.