True believers make the best publicists, and they work cheap.
Aug 032021
Aug 022021
If you want power, fame is a liability.
Jul 302021
To live is to close one’s options.
Jul 292021
The pretense that empty and prolix speeches are noble, that pedestrian performances are scintillating, that crude and mawkish poetry is stirring and profound — this celebration of kitsch is the most degrading aspect of official public spectacle.
Jul 282021
Nothing public can be conversation, and soon everything will be public.
Jul 272021
You have to spend money to lose money.
Jul 262021
Reading great authors improves your writing by making you desperately unhappy with it.
Jul 232021
A man can bear almost any punishment, provided it’s not for his own good.
Jul 222021
One never sees extremely powerful men decide, in midlife, that they have accumulated enough power, and devote the rest of their years to giving it away.
Jul 212021
The ideal aristocrat resembles the dogs of which he is so fond — steadfast, loyal, wedded to tradition, and just a bit thick.