Everybody is worth a paragraph, but almost nobody is worth two.
Oct 292013
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Oct 252013
Manners are the cargo cult of morals.
Sep 262013
Wisdom is the great consolation prize.
Sep 042013
To be better it is first necessary to pretend to be; and objections to improvement often masquerade as objections to pretense.
Aug 062013
Certain qualities — skepticism, iconoclasm, willpower — are fixed in quantity, and must be apportioned wisely.
Jul 082013
We can all be replaced, and we all are.
Jul 012013
Elision is the mother of decision.
Jun 282013
As sympathy broadens, it also shallows.
May 132013
We all want to be happy, just not at the expense of the qualities that make us unhappy.
Apr 242013
Personality varies like men’s fashion — a quarter-inch of width in the tie or length in the cuff.