Disgust, though never dispositive, is always indicative, to be disregarded at one’s peril.
Dec 072022
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Dec 012022
“Keeping options open” is the modern declaration of perpetual adolescence: always glutted with choices and never choosing, always becoming and never being, forever studying the menu.
Nov 292022
Eccentric behavior, like a genetic mutation, is usually deleterious, sometimes neutral, rarely beneficial, and occasionally lethal.
Nov 222022
Youth is a terrible thing not to waste.
Nov 142022
Ability without ambition is tragedy: ambition without ability is farce.
Oct 242022
We often profess ourselves baffled by exceptionally bad behavior, though with a little reflection we could readily understand it. Incomprehension becomes our talisman, lest if we understood more, we might resist less.
Oct 142022
Who will flatter you today will denounce you tomorrow.
Oct 042022
The biggest problems are small problems, iterated indefinitely.
Aug 192022
The cat scratches at the door the moment it closes, and is the man so very different?
Aug 152022
The indifference of others reminds us unpleasantly of the indifference of the universe.