In love, self-love is always at risk.
Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.
To make a thought my own, I must think it often.
Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
Successful innovations become conventions.
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.