In hell you are forced to reread continuously all the books you loved when you were twenty.
Dec 272012
Dec 262012
The more hands your opinions have passed through, the more likely you are to regard them as your own.
Dec 252012
We call past ages unhappy with no better warrant than that we suppose we would have been unhappy in them.
Dec 242012
Youth is lost like money — gradually, then suddenly.
Dec 212012
Our collective delusion that we can fix most problems is another problem we can’t fix.
Dec 202012
In 1870 Henry Adams wrote that everything was respectable, and nothing amusing. Today everything is amusing, and nothing respectable.
Dec 192012
Everyone who used to read is now too busy writing.
Dec 182012
Fools do not suffer fools gladly.
Dec 172012
A leading cause of insanity in America is the prospect of appearing on television.
Dec 142012
Influence is plagiarism spread thin.