OH, CLEVER

The Trumpist movement has generated a lunatic array of semiautonomous online subcultures that are largely indifferent to strategic considerations and immune from political consequences while still exercising influence over actors whose decisions are not so immune.

• Matthew Walther, The Strange Death of Make America Great Again

His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it.

• William Gibson, Neuromancer

Greatness is for someone else. You don't get to experience your own greatness. And if you do, maybe you're not that great.

• Daniel Arnold