Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.
Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.
Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.
A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.