Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.