Your Quote of the Month
or Nothing Clever To Put in This Line, Sorry

One of the best paragraphs thus far in Mark Helprin's "Winter's Tale":

The oddest thing about the elite - of which, I suppose, I am now one - is that they rule so...daintily. The great mass of people, in which one finds brave soldiers, firebrands, geniuses, and inspired mechanics, is paralyzed in the face of these human delicacies with their garden parties, their unprotected estates, their inebriated stumbles, their pastel clothing, and their disempowering obsession with disempowering things. When a workingman moves among them, he is most amazed: amazed at how small they make him feel, amazed at their frailty, amazed that they are yet invincible, amazed that he, a bull, is ruled by a butterfly.