The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

The choice of a man defines is paths.

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?

The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th... It's over already.

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

How did thie person-someone I'd imagined would be my polar opposite-always seem to find the things that would make me the happiest?

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.