Guilt, unlike shame, requires averting one’s gaze from oneself, if only for a moment.
Sep 272021
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
Sep 222021
Now and then a readable novel is written that takes its author as its subject; we call these autobiographies.
Jul 012021
When you find a man to admire, look immediately for sordid particulars of his life and opinions, lest you be tempted to admire him further.
Jun 302021
Pedants are secretly pleased by the epithet, which is a promotion from bore.
May 182021
We affect to despise ignorant bigotry, when it is knowledgeable, highly cultivated bigotry that we really find objectionable.
Apr 222021
We asked first for eternal life, then eternal youth; today we plead for eternal adolescence and tomorrow for eternal infancy.
Mar 162021
Everyone is secretly pleased to be charged with elitism, and when the charge is denied it is with the aim of confirming its justice.
Mar 042021
Some men feed on opprobrium: the scorn of the crowd assures them of their own unbending integrity.
Mar 012021
No one holds humanity in higher regard than he holds himself.
Feb 172021
Everyone cares less for the lives of millions of strangers than the life of his own dog; the modern derangement is to feel guilty about it.