The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.