If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

Laughter scares off lust.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

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