In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.
In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.
King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.
Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.