'Incurious'— a cardinal sin.

'She sang pop music.'

'Reading the essay now, I still sense in it the initial exhilaration in finding ways to mean everything I was saying, and to say a larger fraction of what I had philosophically to say, than I had ever experienced. The elation was an experience as of escaping from what I had inarticulately felt in my philosophical education, and remaining in much of philosophy's dispensation as I began my life of teaching philosophy, as prohibitions on, or suspicions of, everyday speech, quite in the absence of patient attention to the individual utterance.'

'Surely there will be a day of reckoning…'

Train metaphors make their way into German James Brown reviews as much as English ones.

The slow despair of boarding a cool, quiet, empty bus that does not stay that way.

DIY Moretti-ism for the interviews in the second part of The Savage Detectives.

'I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.'

The dismay of seeing the convenience store cashier, who sells people lottery tickets at the convenience store, standing in line at the convenience store, buying a lottery ticket.