Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.
Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.