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

To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.

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

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

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

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.