Funny how the new things are the old things.
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
It is the excitement of becoming – always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining…
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.