Hmm …

… The 19 best sentences of 2017. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

“A word, like a virus, is a minimal kind of agent: it wants to get itself said.” —Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back

Oh, really. Words want things. No wonder this guy believes in memes. Well, according to him, we're all illusions anyway. Whose illusions? He doesn't say.