All authors dream of a posthumous reputation, none of posthumous sales.
Jan 202020
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
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.
Aug 212019
The worst never lack for self-esteem.
Jul 032019
It is first necessary, if you wish to save the world, to eliminate anyone who can save himself.
Jun 142019
Good requires the willingness, now and then, to look bad.
May 232019
History, for the progressive, is a bottomless source of self-regard. He reads of past men and past deeds, and thinks, “If only they were more like us!”
May 062019
Conversation gets especially high praise from people who never shut up.
Apr 292019
No one who thinks of himself as open-minded can be persuaded otherwise.
Mar 282019
Misunderstood, adj. Understood entirely too well.