sentences most of us are unlikely ever to utter

Warren Jeffs at his trial:

“I am God. Cease. Do not present my holy ways as a thing of naught. Hear my warning as a full awakening. Let my holy way be of freedom.”

File that away in memory for your next dispute in a departmental meeting.

A St. John’s faculty member once told me that a certain student had been nominated for one of the annual awards, and another faculty member had objected, on the grounds that the student had only spoken four words all year in seminar. Another faculty member, a witty Scotsman, replied: “What were the four words– ‘I Am The Way’?”