When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.

Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.