To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.