"Mysterious Jackson area lawyer's blog about history, literature, and whatever irks him." -- NMC

"Just a hypersensitive pantywaist probably of Gallic descent who still suffers nightmares over what Gaius Julius did to your people 2,000 years ago." -- Kingfish

And therefore, reader, I myself am the subject of my book; it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.

-- Montaigne,, "To the Reader."

"I shall see myself, I shall read myself, I shall go into ecstacies, and I shall ask -- Is it possible that I have so much ésprit?"

-- Nietzsche,

... the torturer has become – like the pirate and slave trader before him – hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind.

-- Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876, 890 (2d Cir. 1980)