To discover the most appalling ignorance of science one need only canvass its most vociferous defenders.
Oct 162015
Oct 152015
Cynics don’t write. To print one’s words, expecting others to heed or even read them, is an act of preposterous faith in human nature.
Oct 142015
The cure for whoring after the new is to learn how old it is.
Oct 132015
We say that we don’t understand, not humbly, but petulantly, to fault the speaker for pretension, or obscurity, or knowledge of the subject.
Oct 122015
The world has a glut of bad artists and a shortage of good waiters.
Oct 092015
It is odd that there is so much talk of genius, when geniuses deny that it exists, and the rest of us wouldn’t know.
Oct 082015
Free thinking, and worth every penny.
Oct 072015
There are abusers of art, as there are abusers of alcohol, for much the same reasons, and with much the same effects.
Oct 062015
The tyrant concerned for his historical reputation must concentrate his fire on the inarticulate, who don’t leave pesky memoirs behind. Kill peasants, not Jews.
Oct 052015
Sometimes we laugh because it’s funny, sometimes to be polite or to be rude; but usually to show that we understand the joke.