The lives of desperation that most men lead at least used to be quiet.
Apr 102013
Apr 092013
For favors you pay three times over.
Apr 082013
Profundities are often equivocations — trivially true in one sense, obviously false in another, and deep and subtle only if you do not choose.
Apr 052013
The superstitions of a culture are easily discerned: they are the matters on which everyone agrees.
Apr 042013
We remember what we believe, and believe what we remember.
Apr 032013
In fiction murderers and thieves often elicit the reader’s sympathy and understanding; snobs and ingrates elicit only his contempt.
Apr 022013
Optimism is the philosophy of despair.
Apr 012013
We laugh at novels in which the weather tracks the moods of the characters, yet our own moods mostly track the weather.
Mar 292013
Everyone is vain about his choice of what not to be vain about.
Mar 282013
The most grievous insult is the affected modesty of the truly accomplished.