Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

Being enthusiastic settles nothing.

Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.

The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.

Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.