The less you are contradicted, the stupider you become. The more powerful you become, the less you are contradicted.
Jun 192013
Jun 182013
No novel can contain a character more intelligent than its author.
Jun 172013
It is rarer to know when to think than how.
Jun 142013
Primitives and children often have crude taste, but only civilized adults have bad taste.
Jun 132013
The greater good is evil: the larger truth is a lie.
Jun 122013
The past, like a mirror, is best gazed into from a middle distance; you can see nothing close up or far away.
Jun 112013
No book has ever been too short.
Jun 102013
When a woman tells a man she’s married, she means she doesn’t want to sleep with him; when a man tells a woman he’s married, he means he’s heterosexual.
Jun 072013
One idea suffices — for a book, for an essay, for an aphorism.
Jun 062013
We praise in others what we wish to have noticed in ourselves.