Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

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

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

Cynicism has its own zealots.

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.