My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.
Curiosity makes loneliness.
Paradox likes contradictions with exits.
I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it--perhaps even more.
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.
The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.