To deify the state has a certain logic; for the state is compulsion and coercion, and these, too, are God’s usual means.
Oct 122017
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
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.
Jul 102017
Fiction is more confining than history, for fiction must be plausible, while history need only be real.
Jun 282017
Cultural epochs used to last for centuries, then generations, then decades, now a year or two, and soon it will be fifteen minutes.
Jun 262017
Bohemian, n. Artist without the art.
May 262017
The commercial and avant-garde hacks enslave themselves equally to their audience — one to confirm its expectations, one to frustrate them.