Reading an author’s work for his life is like digging up a garden for manure.
Mar 132013
Mar 122013
A new law is passed. We do not read it; would not understand it if we read it; could not foresee its consequences if we understood it; yet hold an unalterable opinion of its merits.
Mar 112013
Nothing is more exasperating than being lied to when both of you know and neither will admit it; yet this goes on all the time.
Mar 082013
Our awareness of what we deserve, but lack, is surpassed only by our blindness to what we have, but do not deserve.
Mar 072013
Diseases have fashions, but hypochondria is always in style.
Mar 062013
As I interpret Genesis, the original sin is ennui.
Mar 052013
Whatever is unnecessary is pernicious.
Mar 042013
It is a peculiar hell, this world in which everyone is always ready for his close-up.
Mar 012013
Science progresses by funeral, culture by massacre, engineering by disaster.
Feb 282013
Read to remember, write to forget.