Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.

The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

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

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.