Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.