The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.
Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.
If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.
