“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere’s Fan)
The Elements of Style
“His first thought on getting out of bed—if he had any thought at all—was to get back in again.”
—Strunk & White (The Elements of Style)
Notes from Underground
“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Notes from Underground)
