A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.
One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.