The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.