Bennett CerfThinkers

A Censor is a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

Good manners is the noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

The Novelist is the true historian of the times in which he lives. Writers (like Dickens and Dostoyevsky) have a kind of extrasensory perception which enables them to see beneath the surface of the age.

An Oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good.

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise like a deep thought.

The Politician is like a ship; noisiest when lost in fog.

Reflexivity is an attempt to cope with one's consciousness of the consequences of other-direction and role-taking in onself [so as to] approach that dream of social science: The utterly detached observer.