Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.
The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.