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

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.