The check is sometimes in the mail, but no one has ever been just curious.
Oct 172019
Lying
To a quite unwreckable Lie,
To a most impeccable Lie!
To a water-tight, fire-proof, angle-iron, sunk-hinge, time-lock, steel-faced Lie!
Not a private hansom Lie,
But a pair-and-brougham Lie,
Not a little-place-at-Tooting, but a country-house-with-shooting
And a ring-fence-deer-park Lie.
—-Kipling
Oct 032019
Clever lies are as common as clever truths are rare.
Oct 012019
It’s not usually the truth that’s being shoved down your throat.
Sep 302019
“We” means neither me nor thee.
Sep 172019
The subtle tempter praises mediocrity to attack excellence, and deviance to attack normality.
Sep 112019
Journalists used to be raffish and amusing liars, and they are no longer raffish or amusing.
Sep 042019
Never confess at the show trial. They shoot you anyway, then kill your wife and children.
Sep 022019
A truth is sometimes told in public, but almost always by accident.
Aug 062019
“Be honest”: An injunction to lie.
Aug 022019
A little truth, hard-won, can last a man for life. It is lies and nonsense for which a tolerance soon becomes a taste, a taste an appetite, and an appetite at last an insatiable craving.