That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.

The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Time itself made all things rare.

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.