Artistic temperament without artistic talent is the last great infectious plague.
Mar 132018
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Jan 302018
Truth’s not Beauty, but it’s interesting.
Nov 282017
Civilization is not a cure for barbarism; it is a respite from barbarism, to be enjoyed while it lasts.
Nov 092017
Someone who understands politics is about as likely to set up as a pundit as someone who can predict the future is to set up as a psychic.
Oct 122017
To deify the state has a certain logic; for the state is compulsion and coercion, and these, too, are God’s usual means.
Oct 062017
If you separate Church and State, the State becomes the Church.
Aug 282017
Believing in God is how most people remind themselves that they are not He.
Aug 042017
We perpetuate ourselves with art and offspring; but art has less alloy and may last longer.
Jul 142017
Having got this world for free, we expect to pay dearly for the next.
Jul 122017
Flawlessness is a trivial quality in a work of art.