Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

Since we hate the same people, we should be friends.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.