The time I kill is killing me.
Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.
The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.
Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.
Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.
Rereading, we find a new book.
Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.
Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
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