A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.

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

Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.

The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.