Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. – Vladimir Nabokov, 1951
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. – James Baldwin
I have never been given to envy – save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. – Paul Getty