Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.
To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.