People’s confidence in their own judgment and discernment is the one commodity that should always be sold short.
Aug 292022
Aug 262022
We so often demand that the dead meet the standards of the living, and so rarely that the living meet the standards of the dead.
Aug 252022
Bad times to live can be good times to write.
Aug 242022
What is called listening usually resembles Scrabble; you look for a hook to hang your own words on.
Aug 232022
It is so much bother to steal money properly that one might as well earn it.
Aug 222022
The typical academic bibliography buries the three books the author has plagiarized among hundreds that he has scarcely opened.
Aug 192022
The cat scratches at the door the moment it closes, and is the man so very different?
Aug 182022
There may never be a cure for every disease, but there will soon be a disease for every cure.
Aug 172022
To see certain things clearly one must be blind to much else.
Aug 162022
Look for words and find thoughts; look for thoughts and find nothing.