The movies compress everything, except sex and violence.
Jul 162015
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Jul 152015
Simplicity over complexity, history over fiction — the old regard these as aesthetic judgments; in fact they are mnemonic aids.
Jul 102015
Humor used to be funny.
Jul 072015
There are perfect works of art, and great works of art, but no great work of art is perfect.
Jun 292015
An actor should be vulgar and insignificant off the stage: we prefer him as someone else.
Jun 242015
Where there are no constraints there can be no art.
May 252015
Guilty pleasure: Something you are afraid your inferiors might like.
May 132015
Quality, too, is subject to diminishing returns. The world runs on large amounts of good enough.
May 052015
Now we say that we do not understand what we only disapprove, and soon we truly will not understand.
Mar 262015
A golden age is the creation of a few, but we can all contribute to a degenerate one.