A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.

Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.