Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.
To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.
English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.