Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.
Wit: a whim followed by a wham.