Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.
The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.