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

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.