A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.
Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.
Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.