All metaphors are wrong; some metaphors are useful.
Dec 122014
Dec 112014
The serial disciple is often mistaken for an independent thinker.
Dec 102014
Passion, n. An overwhelming urge to spend your life at something you don’t do especially well.
Dec 092014
Facts, like food, should be chewed thoroughly before swallowing.
Dec 082014
The contrarian attends most scrupulously to conventional wisdom.
Dec 052014
Every special snowflake may be unique, but how can you tell without a microscope?
Dec 042014
We compensate for limited intelligence with bad memories.
Dec 032014
It takes a lot of time and trouble to write a bad book.
Dec 022014
Readers fall in love with villains because authors do.
Dec 012014
Scholarship
Magisterial: Pompous
Brilliant: Unreliable
Valuable: Trivial
Eccentric: Deranged
Classic: Dull
Formidable: Duller
Encyclopedic: Stupefying