Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
Reading civilized the inner life.
If the current is right, one can drift to success.
Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.
I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
Truth usually stammers at first.
We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.
Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.
Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.
Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.
King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.
I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.
Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.
Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.
The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.
Wit puts politicians at risk.
The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.
Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.
Do as you like--if you know what it is.
Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.
Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.
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