Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money still less as is apt to happen when these are abandoned of race but of age.