Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.

Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.