The knottiest problem in contemporary etiquette is what to say about your friend’s bad art.
Jan 202023
Jan 192023
Some of what you say should not sound like something you would say.
Jan 182023
One needs a lot of learning to wear it lightly.
Jan 172023
Nothing bores in on a man like his own uselessness, and no job title, salary, praise or prestige will permit him to hide it from himself.
Jan 162023
Where counting is permitted, ordering is not far behind.
Jan 132023
Fiction, unlike life, is obliged to make sense.
Jan 122023
With so much bad writing about, it shows a deplorable lack of public spirit that so few will do their own small part to end it.
Jan 112023
Science began to decline when we began to debate whether some particular bit of knowledge merited the term.
Jan 102023
“Have a nice day”, by convention, always closes an effort to spoil it.
Jan 092023
Americans don’t read for pleasure; the books we are assigned in high school see to that.