All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.
One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.