A field that uncomprehendingly imitates the methods of a more prestigious field will also imitate its style: the result being writing that not even the author understands.
Aug 092019
Aug 082019
A little rudeness saves a lot of time.
Aug 072019
I bring my readers the glad tidings that there’s a lot you can’t fix and shouldn’t worry about, and it doesn’t seem to make them happy.
Aug 062019
“Be honest”: An injunction to lie.
Aug 052019
Fastidiousness can defeat barbarism but not savagery.
Aug 022019
A little truth, hard-won, can last a man for life. It is lies and nonsense for which a tolerance soon becomes a taste, a taste an appetite, and an appetite at last an insatiable craving.
Aug 012019
All criticism is destructive, differing only in tact and degree.
Jul 312019
I know many people with a positive mania for facing uncomfortable truths; it seems not to discomfort them in the least.
Jul 302019
Hell has no comedy, just an endless discussion of what isn’t funny.
Jul 292019
Dressing for success is a cargo cult.