Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

A constant interrogation.

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.