Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
The man in the street is always a stranger.
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
Money: power at its most liquid.
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.