My colleague, Chuck, said -- I know it sounds like such an exaggeration -- but we felt like we were on the last helicopters out of Saigon at the collapse of the Vietnam War. It had that kind of feel.

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid cheapening your judgment. Exaggeration wastes distinction and testifies to the paucity of your understanding and taste. Praise excites anticipation and stimulates desire. Afterwards when value does not measure up to price, disappointment turns against the fraud and takes revenge by cheapening both the appraised and the appraise. For this reason let the prudent go slowly, and err in understatement rather than overstatement. The extraordinary of every kind is always rare, wherefore temper your estimate.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

I never exaggerate. I just remember big.

We always weaken everything we exaggerate.