Apes and dolphins, unlike humans, recognize themselves in a mirror.
Jan 082024
Self-Loving
We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns. If we don’t blow them, who will?
—DeWitt
Apr 252023
What do we know of signaling that La Rochefoucauld did not?
Apr 102023
You get to know someone, and learn to like him. Then you discover he holds opinions you find noxious, and you say, “I never knew he was like that.” He isn’t. He’s the same man you knew before he had opinions.
Feb 082023
The idiocy of the press is limited only by the number of favorable reviews it gives your book.
Aug 292022
People’s confidence in their own judgment and discernment is the one commodity that should always be sold short.
Aug 242022
What is called listening usually resembles Scrabble; you look for a hook to hang your own words on.
Jun 272022
Don’t follow the money — there’s too much of it around. Follow the status. Of that there can never be enough.
Apr 012022
No man accounts for his failures without resort to misfortune or injustice, and when they do not exist, he invents them.
Mar 082022
You’re right. Now what?
Feb 152022
Official authorities wonder endlessly why they are reviled and distrusted without ever arriving at the notion that they may be vile and untrustworthy.