An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.