Fastidiousness can defeat barbarism but not savagery.
Aug 052019
Aug 022019
A little truth, hard-won, can last a man for life. It is lies and nonsense for which a tolerance soon becomes a taste, a taste an appetite, and an appetite at last an insatiable craving.
Aug 012019
All criticism is destructive, differing only in tact and degree.
Jul 312019
I know many people with a positive mania for facing uncomfortable truths; it seems not to discomfort them in the least.
Jul 302019
Hell has no comedy, just an endless discussion of what isn’t funny.
Jul 292019
Dressing for success is a cargo cult.
Jul 262019
Our politics, driven more by hatred of the other side than love of our own, possibly betoken a decline in civility but certainly an advance in sense.
Jul 252019
Many of the disorders of the psychology textbooks are quite useful in moderation, and not a few are outright virtues.
Jul 242019
To learn the status of an identity, count how many people fake it.
Jul 232019
It isn’t true.
It doesn’t matter if it’s true.
No one should talk about it.
Why are you talking about it?