A country becomes civilized when its inhabitants can form an orderly queue.
May 072014
May 062014
Imagination: Anthropomorphism run amok.
May 052014
The facts never speak for themselves.
May 022014
Omit, in order of ascending importance, superfluous words, sentences, paragraphs, articles, chapters, and books.
May 012014
We wish, not to be understood, but to be misunderstood exactly as we misunderstand ourselves.
Apr 302014
News is noise.
Apr 292014
Every nuisance that you could fix but tolerate instead represents a small, private, but unmistakable regression to savagery.
Apr 282014
We say of indelible characters from life that they could be fictional; and from books, that they could be real.
Apr 252014
Untried beliefs are the most firmly held.
Apr 242014
No style guide can address the chief defect in writing, which is having nothing to say.