As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

Many gloat over their own troubles.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.

Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.