Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth