Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB