Sometimes a story has one side, usually many, never two.
Jan 032023
Jan 022023
All the glamor goes to purveying the false accusation, the bogus claim, the non-existent effect; all the labor, to refuting it.
Dec 302022
The life to be mined from art is not the artist’s but one’s own.
Dec 292022
Anarchists are scarce but anarcho-this and anarcho-thats are thick on the ground; what follows the hyphen is the dream.
Dec 282022
In life, unlike fiction, characters do not disappear when their usefulness has reached an end.
Dec 272022
Always keep a book handy for when you’re not up to thinking.
Dec 262022
People can believe in anything but accidents.
Dec 232022
When a critic says that the book he is reviewing is “better than X”, he is advising you, in the strongest possible terms, to read X.
Dec 222022
Communism and anarchism are natural allies: one proposes to punish what is best in human nature, the other not to punish what is worst.
Dec 212022
Many things work on a small scale and fail on a large one; crime is exactly the opposite.