The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.
Pity drowns in numbers.
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.
Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.