Prose can hide every vice but vanity.
Jan 102014
Jan 092014
No one remembers who lost the argument, only who lost his temper.
Jan 082014
Most people, on most matters, are not, in fact, entitled to an opinion.
Jan 072014
Clever is a great compliment to children and a gross insult to adults.
Jan 062014
“It was a culture,” the historian will write a century from now, “that found it necessary to invent the word ‘unironically.'”
Jan 032014
That no change is possible was the ancient superstition; that any change is possible is the modern one.
Jan 022014
Now that all have prizes, has everybody won?
Jan 012014
Whatever one does well one is sure to do too often.
Dec 312013
Anger impairs judgment but improves memory.
Dec 302013
Spend enough time mastering a complex system of ideas and you end up believing it.