A Movie Star Is Not An Artist,

He Who Does Not Like You Will Defame You In Jest.

Luck Always Favors The Comely.

There Is A Limbo Of The Lost Through Which American Males Of A Certain Age And Status Almost Inevitably Must Pass These Days.

Memory Is The Personal Journalism Of The Soul.

Divorced, Not Loving Their Abandoned Children As Much As They Loathe Their Former Wives, Directing A Combination Of Need And Hostility Toward The Women Who Drift In And Out Of Their New Lives, They Are, As [one Character] Puts It, "involved In A Variety Of Pharmaceutical Experiments.