Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.

Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.