A cause to die for attracts the man with little to live for.
Feb 032023
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Jan 252023
Whatever you have done, you are the sort of person who would do that.
Jan 172023
Nothing bores in on a man like his own uselessness, and no job title, salary, praise or prestige will permit him to hide it from himself.
Dec 202022
No one has your best interests at heart, including you.
Dec 192022
Closets are fine things, and one should no more parade one’s proclivities in public than strew one’s clothing on the floor.
Dec 152022
What’s worth doing is most likely irreversible.
Dec 132022
When too many are guilty, one must pay.
Dec 072022
Disgust, though never dispositive, is always indicative, to be disregarded at one’s peril.
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.