Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.
Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.
Originality is in the eye of the beholder.
Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.