Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.

Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.