Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.