The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.