Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.
The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.
Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.
Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.