With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.
Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.