Good fences make good neighbors irrelevant.
Jun 292023
Jun 282023
It is possible to oppose, in private, absurdities to which one is obliged to show fealty in public, but easier just to start believing them.
Jun 272023
The Golden Rule is that there is no Golden Rule.
Jun 262023
Endlessly we subdivide, periodize, punctuate — hours and minutes and seconds, phylum and family, genus and species, molecule and atom, hadron and quark, ancient and medieval and modern. Continuity surrounds us; yet we cannot abide it, can scarcely believe in it.
Jun 232023
This is not the end of history. It is not even the beginning of the end of history. But it is, perhaps, the end of the end of history.
Jun 222023
What is a trait, divorced from the man? A patch of color without a painting.
Jun 212023
In Hollywood, no one knows anything, not even who wrote what.
Jun 202023
A just God would be beside the point.
Jun 192023
Every policy has both seen and unseen consequences, and what is unseen dwarfs what is seen.
Jun 162023
Every liberty can be noxiously exercised.