Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.

Wit puts politicians at risk.

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

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