Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.
I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.
As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.