Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

Pornography supplies the only really safe sex.