Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.
With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.
When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.
Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.