The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.
Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.
Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.
Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.