To prefer the strange to the familiar, the far to the near, is in an adolescent a pretentious and mildly endearing tic; in an adult, a disease.
Apr 022021
Nothing
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Mar 182021
There would be less loose talk if the messenger were shot more often.
Mar 152021
Humanity is forever in the grip of various mass hysterias, like little puddles of mimetic polyalloy, which occasionally gather themselves together, and then you have Terminator 2.
Mar 102021
What is praise for the living but the wistful hope that someday, somehow, it will be requited?
Mar 082021
Humanity will extinguish itself not by suicide, which is too dignified, but by accident, a household mishap like swallowing paint thinner, on a planetary scale.
Mar 052021
Inequality is the one unforgivable heresy, and all the conventional pieties conspire to disguise its existence.
Feb 232021
The only difference between utopia and dystopia is that utopia is nowhere and dystopia is everywhere.
Feb 122021
Debunked, adj. Denied.
Feb 082021
No one wants to live more than four or five stories up.
Feb 012021
To argue with one’s political opponents is neither effective nor satisfying. It is more satisfying to insult and rage at them, and more effective to libel and report them.