There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.