Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.
The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.
The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.
The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.