Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.
I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.
Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.
More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.
The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.