Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.