Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Do not wait for a reason to be happy.

I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.