You understand another language not when you can translate it, but when you no longer have to.
Feb 132015
Nothing
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Feb 062015
The modern world does not create our ills; it only drags them into the light.
Jan 212015
Moral equality is to equality what moral victory is to victory.
Jan 202015
Great geniuses possess no extraordinary qualities, only ordinary qualities in exceptional measure.
Jan 192015
A culture without shame has its disadvantages, but it is rough on blackmailers.
Jan 092015
People never appreciate how I cringe for them.
Dec 302014
In psychiatry the diagnosis becomes the disease.
Dec 292014
For purposes of conversation the world can be divided into two classes: too young to talk, and too old to listen.
Dec 252014
The conservative rarely vouches for the health of the patient; he merely prefers the disease to the cure.
Nov 112014
Irony is the last vestige of aristocracy.