It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
I used to build dreams about you.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!
The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.
There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.