Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.