An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

Only death rescues us from dying.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.