I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

The familiar changes as we cling to it.