[general_re]

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

- John Updike, "The Bankrupt Man"

[aculeus]

Definition of chutzpah: Man takes a taxi to Bankruptcy Court ... and when asked to pay the fare invites the driver to join the creditors.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Salon.com-mie = morally bankrupt!