Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
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.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.