One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.