“The difference between me and, say, the opera critic is that I'm charg...” — Wesley Morris Quote

“The difference between me and, say, the opera critic is that I'm charged with thinking about the world beyond opera. I could go see 'Die Fledermaus', for instance. I've never done any of this, by the way. I've never written about one opera since I've had this job.”

“Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.”

“We're charged by Congress with regulating financial institutions. We take that mission seriously. We are tough supervisors and regulators.”

“Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.”

“I've been charged with misappropriation of funds or misuse of two types of funds.”