Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

Promiscuity turns sex into a sport, like arm-wrestling.

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.