Whether either the dumb joke or the nonjoke is funny is hardly a question that arouses the passions or that we much care about […]

Just as the logic of signaling attracts New Money to luxury, countersignaling directs the Old Money sensibility toward modesty.

Whitely (that is, purely, blankly, and voidly), the moon cleanses the world of human industry — almost.

I have tried everything I can think of, and I don't have anything more up my sleeve.