Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.