Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

Life: another day, another dolor.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.