The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
All the world's a cage.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.