It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?