Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.