There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.