Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.
A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.
Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.
To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.
Position yourself well enough, and circumstances will do the rest.
Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.
Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.
The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.
I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.
Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.
Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.
Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.
A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.
Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.
Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.
Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.