The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.

Money is a better tonic than Geritol.

Everyone fears and courts his own demon.