“Composition is the arrangement of unequal things”
“Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?”
“Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
“Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.”
“Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things.”