The man in the street is always a stranger.

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.