Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.