After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

The world needs an enema.