... things I've recently read or thought

An oxymoron:
blogworthy.

A sign on a classroom wall:
An empty room doesn't need light.

Ludwig Wittgenstein on language:
'If a lion could talk, we could not understand it.'
For an explanation, watch this space.

Front-cover teaser for an article:

'What we need the assistance of the historian to understand
is why Departments of English ...
were ever called on to act as an
accrediting agency for entry into the middle class.'

J. M. Coetzee, Australian Book Review, May 2008.