If no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money, then world literature is almost entirely the province of blockheads.
Sep 182019
Getting
You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Aug 132019
It is crime, of all fields, that most attracts the woefully underqualified.
Jul 292019
Dressing for success is a cargo cult.
Jul 242019
To learn the status of an identity, count how many people fake it.
May 302019
Late capitalism is a myth: late democracy is real.
Mar 272019
It is expensive to be poor, and wildly expensive to be stupid.
Mar 112019
Rich societies produce leisure sufficient for folly, and democratic societies make this everybody’s problem.
Feb 212019
The market may not be smarter than everyone — just everyone I know.
Jan 022019
Consumer capitalism isn’t soulless, quite the contrary: it provides consumers with the option of outsourcing their souls.
Dec 252018
Anyone who has not invested in his own recommendations has no skin in the game; and anyone who has is talking his book.