"The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that."

"I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me. But I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of t…"

"The self is a relation which relates itself to itself or, what is the same thing, is in the relation's relating itself to itself."

"I am a living demonstration of the fact that a man can remain a virgin until he is 30, and yet be a man."

"The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes."