Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

The prison is the state writ small.