If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.