The pleasure in having people admire your work lasts until you see what else they like.
Jul 162018
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
Jun 152018
No prejudice is worth having unless one regards it, at least privately, as a mature, objective judgment.
Apr 092018
The argument is for feeling good about the invective, and the invective is for feeling good about oneself.
Mar 082018
The slavish conformist is readily identified by his outsized pride in his independent mind.
Feb 212018
It is non-consumption that has become conspicuous.
Feb 162018
The future will marvel that we regarded “be yourself ” as sound moral advice.
Feb 072018
Those tiny notifications are ego reified, tugging at you incessantly, like a child at its mother in the supermarket, in the cereal aisle.
Dec 152017
Persistent detractors are a mark of distinction, as everyone discovers when he acquires them.
Dec 082017
The aphorist strives for the shock of recognition, the moment it dawns on the reader that, yes, that is just what other people are like.
Oct 272017
Reality, n. The court to which one eventually appeals after losing competitions for power, wealth, and status.