"Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining."

"Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera."

"Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation."

"Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice."

"Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge."

"The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small."

"If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether."

"People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art."

"Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content."

"Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind."

"When sages commend excess, Desire is sick."

"Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation."

"A blocked path also offers guidance."

"Fears and lies intensify consciousness."

"Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality."

"Folly always knows the answer."

"Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism."

"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

"Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them."

"Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are."

"Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean."

"In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words."

"First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory."

"Eternity eludes us, even as a thought."

"Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures."

"Even cats grow lonely and anxious."

"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."

"Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs."

"City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life."

"Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm."

"As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance."

"A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats."

"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth."

"Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence."

"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance."

"Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts."

"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."

"I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box."

"Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it."

"Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises."

"Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs."

"Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth."

"In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing."

"Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle."

"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."

"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying."

"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."

"Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage."

"Art seduces, but does not exploit."

"I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly."