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

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

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.

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

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.

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