Emotions and Feelings

For flavor, Instant Sex will never supersede the stuff you had to peel and cook.

Sex is identical to comedy in that it involves timing.

Sex is identical to comedy in that it involves timing.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means.

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculation than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop.

A satirist is a man profoundly revolted by the society in which he lives. His rage takes the form of wit, ridicule, mockery.

A satirist is a man profoundly revolted by the society in which he lives. His rage takes the form of wit, ridicule, mockery.

A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little—or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

The difference between satire and humor is that the satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive— often to release him again for another chance.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.

and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh.

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true .

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

To a certain extent, a little blindness is necessary when you undertake a risk.