The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
Progress is the realization of utopia.
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.