The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.
Health can be squandered, but not stored up.
After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.
Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.
To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
Reason cannot break out of its own loop.
Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.
I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.
The body has a mind of its own.
Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.
I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.
Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.
Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.
Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.
In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.
Many gloat over their own troubles.
Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.
Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.
Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.
If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.
Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.
The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.
In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.
Like love, grief fades in and out.
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
Everyone makes sexy sounds; relatively few, sexy sights.
Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself.
Blonds look angelic, but can (oh, happy!) be fleshy as well.
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
City wits, country humorists.
Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.
Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.
Young men preen. Old men scheme.
Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.
Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.
Swindlers are notoriously gullible.
Never ask a bore a question.
We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.
The realism of failure, the romance of success.