Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Styles in wit change so.
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Writers talk too much.
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.