Primitives and children often have crude taste, but only civilized adults have bad taste.
Jun 142013
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.
Jun 052013
The likable never know whether they are liked for themselves or for their likability.
Jun 042013
The worst hangover is the morning after you finish a bad book.
Jun 032013
Efficient search is serendipity’s implacable enemy.