Publish in haste and repent at leisure.
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.
I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.
Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.