Once it was fashionable to be fat, to show that you got enough to eat; and then it became fashionable to be thin, to distinguish yourself from the ostentatiously fat. This is the complete history of taste.
Jul 032020
Self-Loving
We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns. If we don’t blow them, who will?
—DeWitt
Jun 262020
Imagine thinking that people, if they only understood you better, would like you more.
May 272020
No deed is so awful as to prevent a man from thinking well of himself even as he commits it.
Mar 172020
To recognize your betters you have to acknowledge that they exist.
Mar 162020
You are not a stereotype, as far as you know.
Feb 202020
The sum of human knowledge spread before you like a banquet, free, at the touch of a screen, and with everything to choose from, you attend to — each other.
Feb 032020
There’s nothing wrong with narcissism that better narcissists can’t fix.
Jan 202020
All authors dream of a posthumous reputation, none of posthumous sales.
Dec 242019
It is a terrible shock to learn how much less the world thinks of you than you think of yourself, and no one ever truly recovers.
Oct 022019
Confession is vanity’s last resort.