Fastidiousness can defeat barbarism but not savagery.
Aug 052019
Nothing
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Jul 302019
Hell has no comedy, just an endless discussion of what isn’t funny.
Jul 262019
Our politics, driven more by hatred of the other side than love of our own, possibly betoken a decline in civility but certainly an advance in sense.
Jul 162019
If you want someone to talk, shut up.
Jul 052019
Toady, n. Apprentice bully.
Jun 182019
Many famous and respectable men are incompletely domesticated, and now and then one will do or say something to sabotage his reputation, as a bear will gnaw off its leg to get out of a trap.
Jun 042019
Respectable opinion is a sandbox, and it is the children who play at its edges who guard it most zealously from the children who are not allowed to play at all.
May 172019
You may speak for others when they hire you to do so.
Apr 222019
We envision cozy, domestic futures, with flying cars and a place for us, and we are always wrong: the future will have no place for us at all.
Apr 182019
Those who can, smoke; those who cannot, philosophize.