The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.

Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.