Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

Living too long exacts a painful price.

Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.

Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.

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

If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.