To avoid eye contact, kiss.

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.