Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.