What you lose with age is not so much capacities as the illusion that you ever had them.
Jun 182014
Jun 172014
Poverty is a tremendous expense.
Jun 162014
Every effort to know your own mind changes it, sometimes beyond recognition.
Jun 132014
People praise sincerity in art because they cannot bear the idea that an artist can imitate their deepest thoughts and feelings while remaining unmoved by them.
Jun 122014
Doubt of the obvious engenders belief in the impossible.
Jun 112014
Boredom is more terrible than misery.
Jun 102014
A civilization with elaborate manners is already half-dead.
Jun 092014
There is always a ceiling, and never a floor.
Jun 062014
Mental effort dwarfs all other costs.
Jun 052014
More people fear the past than the future.