Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.