Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

God improvises. Man systematizes.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it--perhaps even more.