There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.