Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

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

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.