Our awareness of what we deserve, but lack, is surpassed only by our blindness to what we have, but do not deserve.
Mar 082013
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.
Feb 272013
The great problem in political science is how to persuade the people to elect a government of which the theorist approves.
Feb 262013
Defang a book by putting it on the syllabus, a painting by putting it in a museum, and a radical by putting him in the ministry.
Feb 252013
We are more like our contemporaries than we imagine, and less like our ancestors.