If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.
Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.
The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.
With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.