I love money, but will money ever love me in return?
Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.