It is more pleasant to be told that one has done a brilliant thing than that one is a brilliant person, which implies an obligation to continue.
May 182018
May 172018
To yearn for celebrity is to envy the animals when visiting the zoo.
May 162018
The past is rarely given voice, except to pronounce in favor of present fashion.
May 152018
I anticipate an old age full of regrets for what I did not do, with only a few for what I did not say.
May 142018
It is possible, though unusual, to acquire the habit of finding truths comforting and lies unpleasant.
May 112018
Essay, n. An aphorism that hasn’t quite coalesced.
May 102018
The road to failure is paved with hortatory sermons on success.
May 092018
Metrics work, as long as no one knows what they are.
May 082018
To be on the wrong side of history is sometimes fatal; to be in its way always is.
May 072018
We are exhorted to show regard for future generations, in books that they will have to sort through and throw away.