When the numbers don’t come out as you would like, the first resort is to change the way you count; the second is to stop counting.
Jan 042021
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
Dec 012020
The habitual liar suffers most for his spasms of honesty.
Sep 072020
Impostor syndrome, n. The realization that you are, in fact, an impostor.
Aug 272020
A single betrayal, revealed at the proper time, can retrospectively poison a man’s whole life.
Aug 202020
Censorship, n. Official liars unionizing to keep out competition.
Aug 122020
I respect pretense, which suggests shame.
Jun 252020
To live with lies is, eventually, to live by them.
Jun 112020
Some lies help you succeed, and some truths help you fail.
May 262020
In good prose lies sound unnatural.
May 152020
A truth it profits no one to reveal never will be.