Everything – Page 223 – A book of aphorisms
Jul 012015
 

Age has its privileges, like picking up the check.

Jun 302015
 

The ideal tool for avoiding communication is language.

Jun 292015
 

An actor should be vulgar and insignificant off the stage: we prefer him as someone else.

Jun 252015
 

Some accept praise reluctantly, as if not quite able to believe that others can discern their subtle yet profound merit.

Jun 242015
 

Where there are no constraints there can be no art.

Jun 232015
 

Writing is hard. Writing about how hard writing is is somewhat easier.

Jun 222015
 

One certainty is often exchanged for another, doubt for certainty occasionally, certainty for doubt almost never.

Jun 192015
 

To catch one lie is to see one cockroach.

Jun 182015
 

To see one’s thought summarized aptly and briefly is the rare experience that is flattering and humiliating in equal measure.