Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.

An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.

Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

Young girls giggle with nervous delight at the erections they inspire.