The audience demands that you write not only for them but with them and about them — that you see with their eyes, only better.
Dec 142023
Dec 132023
The polite way to say “you don’t know” is “I don’t know”.
Dec 122023
One is rarely asked to lie but often forced to.
Dec 112023
It doesn’t matter which side of history you’re on, as long as you’re not in its way.
Dec 082023
A foolish consistency is the indispensable condition of a rabid following.
Dec 072023
A calculating, self-seeking morality will never animate the mass of men: prudence makes no martyrs.
Dec 062023
Vague generalities derive from vague particulars.
Dec 052023
Voters who go mad in national elections often recover their sanity in local ones.
Dec 042023
Every city, regardless of its provisions for the poor, has always featured importunate public begging.
Dec 012023
Truth is only stranger than good fiction.