You can’t write for your betters, and you shouldn’t write for your inferiors. You might as well write what you want to read.
Sep 132022
Sep 122022
As you grow old, you forget, and as you forget, you have to stop lying, or at least cut way down.
Sep 092022
Rogues, dunces, and newspapermen have long been with us, but the rogues are no longer charming, the dunces no longer amiable, and the newspapermen no longer raffish.
Sep 082022
The fundamental constraint on action is uncertainty about the future. The fundamental strategy of philosophical hypotheticals is to assume it away.
Sep 072022
Government does not issue recommendations or suggestions — only threats.
Sep 062022
If justice delayed were justice denied, there would be no justice at all.
Sep 052022
A noxious sales practice, which even street beggars have learned, is to precede the solicitation with a pleasantry, such as any well-meaning stranger might offer. Eventually one begins to dread all such pleasantries, as preludes to solicitation.
Sep 022022
Apostasy always trumps heresy. Refusing to join the army may get you jailed, but deserting will get you shot.
Sep 012022
One must admire psychiatry’s enterprising spirit: not content with lobotomy, electroshock, hydrotherapy, and tranquilization, it has pressed boldly forward to gender reassignment surgery on confused adolescents.
Aug 302022
Public opinion is not what everyone believes, but what everyone believes everyone else believes.