Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.
Morals are private. Decency is public.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.