I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.