There is no book everyone should read, no music everyone should hear, no movie everyone should watch.
Jun 242013
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Jun 142013
Primitives and children often have crude taste, but only civilized adults have bad taste.
May 312013
What passes for sanity is only people’s fortunate refusal to take their own ideas seriously.
May 162013
To listen to people with talent, you might almost believe that there is no such thing.
May 142013
Polytheism is pre-scientific: monotheism is anti-scientific.
Apr 232013
The strange grows familiar, and its former strangeness becomes impossible to recover or even to fathom.
Apr 022013
Optimism is the philosophy of despair.
Mar 142013
Critics resent artists, but not half as much as artists resent critics.
Mar 082013
Our awareness of what we deserve, but lack, is surpassed only by our blindness to what we have, but do not deserve.
Mar 062013
As I interpret Genesis, the original sin is ennui.