In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.