Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.
Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.
Failures are easier to repeat than successes.
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.