Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Everything changes as it is written down.
In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.
Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.
One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.