“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.
Dec 012022
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?
Nov 222022
Youth is a terrible thing not to waste.
Nov 212022
Necessity is contingency in retrospect.
Nov 182022
Certain villains achieve martyrdom by the peculiar luck of being murdered by men still more villainous.