Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
Never have children, only grandchildren.
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.