It improves morale, in the war against insects, to remember that we are the underdog.
May 132020
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You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
May 052020
Hate is the most unjustly maligned emotion, and love the most unjustly celebrated.
Apr 302020
Hating the people you disagree with is harmless; it’s liking the ones you agree with that’s dangerous.
Apr 232020
We police others’ moods even more strictly than we police their thoughts.
Mar 252020
J.B.S. Haldane remarked, a century ago, that Earth could be united only by a Martian invasion. He was wrong: today there would be a large and vociferous pro-Martian party.
Mar 232020
Let epigones be epigones.
Mar 122020
The perception, sufficiently exact, supersedes the judgment, obviates the judgment, becomes the judgment.
Feb 242020
Ugly furniture lasts forever.
Feb 212020
Aphorism: A blank page spoiled.
Feb 192020
Everybody complains about getting older, but nobody does anything about it.