Always speak Truth to Power, once you’re sure Power isn’t going to option your novel.
Apr 112018
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
Mar 162018
There are beliefs that are useful to hold, and beliefs that are useful to advertise, which have almost nothing in common.
Feb 282018
The excuse is never buried more than three reasons deep.
Nov 232017
Accuracy is the last refuge of a liar.
Oct 112017
The truth is sometimes plausible, the lie always is.
Aug 212017
“The check is in the mail” is sometimes true but “I was being funny” never is.
Aug 182017
Science-based is to science what people’s republics are to republics.
Jul 262017
By the time we are old enough to say what we please we have lost the habit.
Jun 012017
We immediately recognize excess precision as a sign of lying, except in a statistic.
May 012017
The two great moral lessons of our time: we must celebrate our differences; and we are all the same.