My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.