Uncivilized colonists enslave the natives; civilized colonists exterminate them.
Dec 042013
Dec 032013
The principle of epistemic modesty does not imply that people in high places know what they’re doing; quite the contrary.
Dec 022013
To be perfectly sincere one must be very clever or very stupid.
Nov 292013
Good critics do not have good taste. They have articulate, consistent taste for which the reader can correct.
Nov 282013
To be powerful relieves one of the obligation to be interesting.
Nov 272013
Only the very cruellest novelists reproduce dialogue accurately.
Nov 262013
Every historical atrocity has been committed in the name of some high principle.
Nov 252013
If you want to keep a secret, put it in the middle of a long book.
Nov 222013
You can have anything you want, provided it’s the only thing you want, and it’s not worth having.
Nov 212013
On many topics it is embarrassing to have an opinion, no matter what it is.