Candor is honesty’s poor relation.
Jul 172013
Jul 162013
Americans take no interest in education but are obsessed with schooling.
Jul 152013
Unbending virtue dies on the page. Bores, prigs, hypocrites, blowhards, martinets — these are the glories of world literature.
Jul 122013
Restaurants fail more frequently than gas stations because no one dreams of quitting his corporate job to open a gas station.
Jul 112013
If the object of desire is rich, we call it gold-digging; if handsome, lust; if clever, fascination; and if he has no discernible appeal, we call it love.
Jul 102013
The modern mind will countenance any explanation for what you say except that you believe it.
Jul 092013
The incorruptible politician merely prefers power to money.
Jul 082013
We can all be replaced, and we all are.
Jul 052013
You stir up a lot of sunken knowledge when you reorganize your library.
Jul 042013
It is a kind of blessing, if you have no talent, to have no taste.