If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

Constant talkers are unheard.

Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.