Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.