Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.