Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

Successful innovations become conventions.