Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.
Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.
Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.
Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?