But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

People of ze wurl, relax!

Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!

Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right