Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.