More is lost in translation from thought to page than from one language to another.
Apr 172013
Apr 162013
The Jewish kid who spray-paints a swastika on the synagogue to make the local TV news — this is the guiding metaphor for our time.
Apr 152013
Bad to take obscurity for profundity: worse to take clarity for shallowness.
Apr 122013
Beautiful women become bored with hearing that they are beautiful because it is the only truth they are ever told.
Apr 112013
No one hates or envies insincerely.
Apr 102013
The lives of desperation that most men lead at least used to be quiet.
Apr 092013
For favors you pay three times over.
Apr 082013
Profundities are often equivocations — trivially true in one sense, obviously false in another, and deep and subtle only if you do not choose.
Apr 052013
The superstitions of a culture are easily discerned: they are the matters on which everyone agrees.
Apr 042013
We remember what we believe, and believe what we remember.