The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.