I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.