The more unusual the topic, the more conventional the thought it inspires.
Oct 172012
Oct 162012
It is impossible to cultivate talent without persistence, but common to persist without talent.
Oct 152012
Marry a beautiful woman to be envied, a clever woman to be fascinated, and a thrifty woman to be happy.
Oct 122012
The impeccably credentialed are always loyal to the reigning order.
Oct 112012
When reading fiction, ask which of the villains you resemble.
Oct 102012
Mute inglorious Miltons, flowers born to blush unseen and waste their sweetness on the desert air, are extinct, and I miss them.
Oct 092012
Men form alliances first not to be stolen from, and then to steal.
Oct 082012
One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.
Oct 052012
Journalists, like certain aboriginal tribes, count one, two, many.
Oct 042012
If you repress thought sufficiently you need not repress speech.