Many of the disorders of the psychology textbooks are quite useful in moderation, and not a few are outright virtues.
Jul 252019
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Jul 082019
It is on the most dubious propositions that we lavish our most ardent desires.
Jul 012019
To dominate someone is to think less often of him than he does of you, and to do this on a mass scale is fame.
Jun 272019
Pleasure lies chiefly in anticipation and retrospection, the experience itself being necessary to ensure that neither is spoiled.
Apr 052019
It is the progressives, though they sneer at the Christians, who are most thoroughly convinced of grace by faith.
Mar 292019
Those who suffer for their art usually make you suffer for it too.
Feb 252019
Fiction: imaginary people, real problems. Sports: imaginary problems, real people.
Jan 312019
American cities are dotted by hulks of jagged, rusting metal, abandoned, seemingly without function, surrounded by endless expanses of concrete. This is the public sculpture.
Jan 112019
Musical taste ossifies early for the same reason mathematicians peak young.
Nov 302018
A savage can be a proper host: it takes civilization to be a proper guest.