Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother’s hatred still comes as a surprise.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Sincerity: willingness to spend one’s own money.
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.