People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.