The Happiness Of Others Is Never Bearable

Only By Pursuing The Extremes In One's Nature, With All Its Contradictions, Appetites, Aversions, Rages, Can One Hope To Understand A Little - Oh, I Admit Only A Very Little - Of What Life Is About.

Art Must Take Reality By Surprise. It Takes Those Moments Which Are For Us Merely A Moment, Plus A Moment, Plus Another Moment, And Arbitrarily Transforms Them Into A Special Series Of Moments Held Together By A Major Emotion.

Jazz Music Is An Intensified Feeling Of Nonchalance.

People Respect Unhappiness And Find It Especially Hard To Forgive Success.

No One Talks About Money More Than People Who Have Too Much Of It.