Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Satire is the disease of art.
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Remorse turns us against ourselves.
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.