I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.