Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.