In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?
Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.
Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.