Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
Everyone makes sexy sounds; relatively few, sexy sights.
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
The prison is the state writ small.
God improvises. Man systematizes.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.