Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.