Money: power at its most liquid.

We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.

Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.

If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.