No one could be the way I remember my father.
Disillusionment is not truth.
The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.
Enough is ever-receding.
Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.
My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.
Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.
To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.
The lazy manage to keep up with the earth’s rotation just as well as the industrious.
Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.
Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.
A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.
My struggles with myself seldom reach aerobic level.
The sheen of ocean gleams on the blue fish-plate.
The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.
Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.