Many people are so bored and unhappy that they welcome a personal disaster, as a change, and especially a social disaster, as a change in which others will suffer as well.
Oct 292020
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Oct 162020
True friends have seen the best in you, and put up with you anyway.
Oct 062020
Countless acts of surpassing excellence have been committed out of spite and fear.
Sep 302020
Sanity is less a particular outlook than a practiced aversion to the multifarious forms of crazy.
Sep 032020
There is a happiness in widely-shared enforced misery that goes a long way toward explaining nostalgia for Stalinism, or broadcast television.
Aug 272020
A single betrayal, revealed at the proper time, can retrospectively poison a man’s whole life.
Aug 262020
It is a world of men who look like Unix system administrators, without the Unix system administration skills.
Aug 212020
Nothing in psychology replicates as well as stereotypes.
Aug 192020
Naive is a polite term for stupid, and stupid is a polite term for rotten.
Aug 122020
I respect pretense, which suggests shame.