Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.