Nearly every new law is bad, and nearly every old custom is good.
Jun 292022
Jun 282022
A time-honored tactic of the schoolyard bully, after he has ground your face into the dirt, is to release you on the condition that you mouth some humiliating absurdity. He does not want to convince you of its truth; he wants to see what you will swallow.
Jun 272022
Don’t follow the money — there’s too much of it around. Follow the status. Of that there can never be enough.
Jun 242022
You can star in the movie of your life, or live it.
Jun 232022
Learn languages, to stop thinking in words.
Jun 222022
Do not be the sort of person who, if he did not exist, would have to be invented.
Jun 212022
So many china shops, so few bulls.
Jun 202022
A quest for the exotic is always rooted in contempt for the familiar.
Jun 172022
Rules are made to be selectively enforced.
Jun 162022
Of all discourse, only debate binds its participants, by rule and in advance, to a position that they must defend throughout. It is the formal expression of our worst tendencies.