One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.
A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.
You don't even live once.