Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.