My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
Family life is an encroachment on private life.
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.