Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
Wit: a whim followed by a wham.
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.