Perhaps you mistake assurance for insolence…Agreed, the qualities sometimes converge. — Jack Vance

“I perceive your ideological bias.”

“It is not bias to favor the tried and true ways of the past; it is ordinary common sense.”

There’s ample human achievement in the universe, but not nearly enough beauty.

A troubled society is like a man with a stomach-ache. When he purges himself, he improves.