Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.
After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when he said that the Irish are impervious to psychoanalysis.
Trump doesn't need his own agenda if he can terrify independent voters in swing states about what would happen if the Democratic agenda is implemented.
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
I like Gramsci. He's an important person.
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv.
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
He is every other inch a gentleman.
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
