Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.
Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
Keep your lies short and simple.
Never lie in writing.
The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.
Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.
Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.
Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.
At the dinner table, if you can’t think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don’t throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.
Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.
Innovation violates tradition – attacks it in public and steals from it in private.
Successful innovations become conventions.
Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.
The rich are happier than we are, and should be.
The rich feel full of merit.
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
Our troubles keep us going.