Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

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

Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.