Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.