Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.