Visconti’s The Leopard is to movies what the first Velvet Underground record is to music: almost no one sat through it, but everyone who did became a director.
Feb 092023
Feb 082023
The idiocy of the press is limited only by the number of favorable reviews it gives your book.
Feb 072023
Stage plays, no matter how well done, always remain faintly ridiculous.
Feb 062023
The management consultant, equal parts lawyer, courtier, and scapegoat, unites in himself the fees, and opprobrium, that accrue to each.
Feb 032023
A cause to die for attracts the man with little to live for.
Feb 022023
Where scarcity does not exist, it is invented.
Feb 012023
A woman is apt to confuse a man’s reluctance to marry with his reluctance to marry her.
Jan 312023
The royal road to wealth is not to make money but to capture it.
Jan 302023
Ostracism, as the Greeks understood, is the cruelest punishment.
Jan 272023
If many hold one view, at no cost to themselves, and a few hold the contrary, at grievous expense, which carries more weight?