I like instant gratification. It’s like instant coffee, only it won’t keep you up all night.

Instant gratification is like instant coffee, only it won’t keep you up all night.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of...