My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.
Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.
Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.
The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.