All work is the avoidance of harder work.
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.
Sophistication is upscale conformity.
Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.
How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.
It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.