Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.