Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.