Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.
King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.