Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.