I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

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

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.