Too bourgeois is an irritant, not bourgeois enough a disaster.
Aug 132014
Aug 122014
Men will never be as good at being men as cats are at being cats.
Aug 112014
One can achieve certain intense aesthetic experiences only at the cost of missing out on others entirely.
Aug 082014
Exceptionally bad art sometimes acquires a constituency, the way famous murderers attract marriage proposals.
Aug 072014
Art corrupts politics more than politics corrupts art.
Aug 062014
Less garbage was written when it had to be written by hand.
Aug 052014
Anything can be conjured into existence by empowering a committee to suppress it.
Aug 042014
One can learn quickly just enough to exasperate someone who understands the subject.
Aug 012014
Write in the margin as you would speak to the author.
Jul 312014
Few would deny that the earth was flat if it were a small inconvenience to maintain that it is round.