"You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you… — Laura Penny

The humanities are despised because they are dangerous. They arm us with the intellectual weapons we need to fight the forces of ignorance and idiocracy, and to free ourselves from freedumb.

I can sculpt a birthday cake out of shit and insist that I obviously mean cake, that my real intent is to wish you a happy birthday, but my intentions and protestations cannot turn crap into a delicious dessert.

Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.