Problems are generally minor; the disasters are the solutions.
Mar 232023
Mar 222023
No aphorism wants to be born a cliché; every aphorism wants to die one.
Mar 212023
Eccentric diets and exercise — vegan, paleo, ultra-marathon, yoga — advertise themselves as cures for the body; in fact they are cures for the soul, often at the body’s expense.
Mar 202023
The wish that things were otherwise, if ardent enough, becomes, by degrees, the belief that they are.
Mar 172023
Students need to see thinking in action. Instead they are shown thinking accomplished, and the two look nothing alike.
Mar 162023
The cure for writer’s block is speaker’s block.
Mar 152023
The complacent success begins as a resentful failure.
Mar 142023
We preach for our politics, and for our religion, but preachers for art are known as “critics” and justly regarded as an alien species.
Mar 132023
Superlatives have driven out comparatives, as bad money drives out good.
Mar 102023
In the end, lies may be no match for truth, but no one knows, and the end is far, far away.