Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.