1a. What’s the word for having so much to say but believing that doing so won’t matter?

1b. If ideas are never expressed, are they lost forever?

2. USA: Thirsty for expertise while wanting none.

3. Tragically, history says, “I change big stuff with microbes!”

4. Snapdragons are beautiful.

5. When quarantined, Italians evidently sing.

6. (Plagiarized, I think): There’s something demonic in the inability to laugh.

7. If you don’t like the media, then put the product back on the shelf, and exit the store without burning it down for the other patrons.

8. “Sycophancy: obsequious flattery.” (www.merriam-webster.com. Accessed 14 March 2020, in the Year of his Reign the Fourth)

9. Today is that crisp feeling after the rain falls and the wind blows, and the crevices appear in faraway mountains.