Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. - Ralph Ellison

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

...the way we talk...you know that our people like to talk around a subject even when there's no danger. They enjoy it, and if they know you well enough they're apt to leave their true subject unstated so you'll have to supply the missing meaning.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.