If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.