Nothing bores in on a man like his own uselessness, and no job title, salary, praise or prestige will permit him to hide it from himself.
Jan 172023
Jan 162023
Where counting is permitted, ordering is not far behind.
Jan 132023
Fiction, unlike life, is obliged to make sense.
Jan 122023
With so much bad writing about, it shows a deplorable lack of public spirit that so few will do their own small part to end it.
Jan 112023
Science began to decline when we began to debate whether some particular bit of knowledge merited the term.
Jan 102023
“Have a nice day”, by convention, always closes an effort to spoil it.
Jan 092023
Americans don’t read for pleasure; the books we are assigned in high school see to that.
Jan 062023
Poetry and music continuously raise expectations in the listener. What is too conventional caters to them exactly; what is too unconventional does not cater to them at all.
Jan 052023
Tyranny is never frank, even with no reason to be anything else. It is forever wheedling, patronizing, solicitous, half high-school vice-principal and half kindergarten crossing-guard.
Jan 042023
Principles of Evolutionary Biology
1. It can be explained by natural selection.
2. If it cannot be explained by natural selection, it can be explained by sexual selection.