Of rulers’ vices, corruption is not the worst, merely the tackiest.
Dec 062022
Dec 052022
Always consume your friends’ favorite art. It might be good, and if it isn’t, you can absorb yourself endlessly in wondering why they like it.
Dec 022022
What makes a marriage is less common interests than complementary vices.
Dec 012022
“Keeping options open” is the modern declaration of perpetual adolescence: always glutted with choices and never choosing, always becoming and never being, forever studying the menu.
Nov 302022
Everyone wants higher standards, just not lower grades.
Nov 292022
Eccentric behavior, like a genetic mutation, is usually deleterious, sometimes neutral, rarely beneficial, and occasionally lethal.
Nov 282022
What audiences love and critics hate is likely vulgar; what audiences hate and critics love is likely malicious.
Nov 252022
A necessary evil is a contradiction in terms.
Nov 242022
One flesh, in many marriages, is no mere metaphor: the vitality of husband and wife mix, and one waxes as the other wanes.
Nov 232022
We have laws against private usury, yet where are the laws against public uxory?