The old cling most desperately to life — not from belated philosophic recognition of its splendors, or fear of death, but from habit.
Feb 012019
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Jan 142019
There is a time in everyone’s life in which he is a silly ass. If you don’t know when it was, it’s now.
Dec 282018
What a man does is remembered when the ironic, detached attitude with which he does it has long been forgotten.
Dec 262018
Don’t make big plans at small hours.
Dec 102018
The best recipient for your advice, your former self, is unfortunately in no position to take it.
Nov 282018
Humanity, n. Quality or condition of being human; lowest common denominator.
Nov 272018
The solitary man affronts, preferring his own company to yours.
Nov 202018
Romanticism is the idea that we should express our inner self; classicism, that we have no inner self to express.
Nov 162018
It is difficult to hear those who can’t speak for themselves over the din of those who presume to speak for them.
Nov 092018
Things are so much as they seem that good-looking people really are more virtuous.