If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.
Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.
Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.