One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.

Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.