I ask one thing of literature: that it draw blood.
Sep 232015
Sep 222015
Domestic sentiment swamps every virtue.
Sep 212015
The punster, the grammarian, the nitpicking fact-checker all display contempt for what is being said. They counterfeit attention.
Sep 182015
Our thirst for narrative makes saints of reformed sinners, and reformed sinners of saints.
Sep 172015
“Because I can” is a fundamental and oft-overlooked principle of human behavior.
Sep 162015
Sometimes we imagine things into existence, more often out of it.
Sep 152015
To understand the past, treat it like the present; to understand the present, treat it like the past.
Sep 142015
Ideas rule the world — the ideas of the people who rule the world.
Sep 112015
No one thinks to correct hypocrisy by aligning his beliefs with his actions.
Sep 102015
Every good performance artist is known as something else.