New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

Helplessness is a mighty power.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.