We are apt to forget, though history at intervals reminds us, how far hypocrisy is to be preferred to sincere, unaffected villainy.
Jul 052022
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Jul 012022
With ideas, you get what you want, not what you need.
Jun 242022
You can star in the movie of your life, or live it.
Jun 222022
Do not be the sort of person who, if he did not exist, would have to be invented.
Jun 202022
A quest for the exotic is always rooted in contempt for the familiar.
Jun 102022
If luck did not exist, it would be necessary for men, to live together in society, to invent it.
May 272022
The fault is not in our phones, but in ourselves.
May 182022
If the rich and accomplished were swine, they would be envied less. As it is, they are envied for being rich, accomplished, and not swine.
May 122022
One’s former selves ought to be labeled with subscripts for the year, like isotopes with their atomic weights.
May 092022
The writer who does not disappoint in person has left too little of himself on the page.