Improvement rarely begins in reflection on how wonderful you already are.
Feb 102022
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
Jan 032022
Things were so much better when you were.
Nov 162021
That warm, fuzzy feeling when you know you have done right? Nothing is to be trusted less.
Oct 292021
The fundamental human need, once the physical have been met, is to look good.
Sep 272021
Guilt, unlike shame, requires averting one’s gaze from oneself, if only for a moment.
Sep 222021
Now and then a readable novel is written that takes its author as its subject; we call these autobiographies.
Jul 012021
When you find a man to admire, look immediately for sordid particulars of his life and opinions, lest you be tempted to admire him further.
Jun 302021
Pedants are secretly pleased by the epithet, which is a promotion from bore.
May 182021
We affect to despise ignorant bigotry, when it is knowledgeable, highly cultivated bigotry that we really find objectionable.
Apr 222021
We asked first for eternal life, then eternal youth; today we plead for eternal adolescence and tomorrow for eternal infancy.