Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.
A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.
If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.
Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.