“Your self is a cosmetic fiction, a centrifuge.”
“A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.”
“Fiction is the best the self-help book.”
“The trouble with doing a thing for cosmetic reasons is that one always ends up with a cosmetic result, and cosmetic results, as we know from inspecting rich American women, are ludicrous, embarrassing, and horrific.”
“The cosmetic is cosmic.”
“The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.”