The ordinary idea of goodness is so passive that it lacks its own verb: one sins, but never saints.
Jul 072014
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Jun 182014
What you lose with age is not so much capacities as the illusion that you ever had them.
Jun 092014
There is always a ceiling, and never a floor.
May 012014
We wish, not to be understood, but to be misunderstood exactly as we misunderstand ourselves.
Apr 282014
We say of indelible characters from life that they could be fictional; and from books, that they could be real.
Apr 232014
Boredom can be fatal, though it never appears on the coroner’s report.
Apr 102014
Humanity has progressed vastly with how, less with what, and not at all with why.
Apr 042014
True freaks don’t fly flags.
Apr 032014
The basest viciousness usually wraps itself in a hygienic metaphor.
Mar 312014
Only after he has exhausted his other resources does the boy begin to torture insects, or the ruler his subjects.