Personality varies like men’s fashion — a quarter-inch of width in the tie or length in the cuff.
Apr 242013
Apr 232013
The strange grows familiar, and its former strangeness becomes impossible to recover or even to fathom.
Apr 222013
Surfeit: A group of poets.
Apr 192013
So much to unlearn, so little time.
Apr 182013
The people are flattered more obsequiously than the monarch ever was.
Apr 172013
More is lost in translation from thought to page than from one language to another.
Apr 162013
The Jewish kid who spray-paints a swastika on the synagogue to make the local TV news — this is the guiding metaphor for our time.
Apr 152013
Bad to take obscurity for profundity: worse to take clarity for shallowness.
Apr 122013
Beautiful women become bored with hearing that they are beautiful because it is the only truth they are ever told.
Apr 112013
Hatred and envy are always sincere.