The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.
Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules.
The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.
One’s fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one’s genitals, or one’s children.
I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.
Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.
Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.
Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.
Alzheimer’s usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.
F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.
I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.
To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.
Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.
An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.