I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
I'm not trying to be provocative, I'm just trying to be honest.
The work is not about the object, but about the experience.
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.