The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

Self-pity makes people callous.

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.

Pornography supplies the only really safe sex.