It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life. - Gore Vidal

Must one have a heart of stone to read The Ballad of Reading Gaol without laughing? (In life, practically no one ever gets to kill the thing he hates, much less loves.) And did not De Profundis plumb for all time the shallows of the most reported love affair of the past hundred years, rivalling even that of Wallis and David, its every nuance (O Bosie!) known to all, while trembling rosy lips yet form, over and over again, those doom-laden syllables The Cadogan Hotel? Oscar Wilde. Yet again. Why?

...because academics everywhere are forever attacking one another, and I had long since learned that one must never believe what a teacher says of another.

Islam, Judaism, Christianity are the three great evils that have befallen the world.