When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

I love money, but will money ever love me in return?

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.