The apotheosis of the artist comes when he arrogates to himself the right to bore you.
Feb 082022
Feb 072022
A few books, like Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson and certain novels by Wodehouse, are unglossable, complete and perfect in themselves. They may succeed with the public but never with the critics, who before them feel their own irrelevance too acutely.
Feb 042022
As the Western rose and fell, so too America.
Feb 032022
If you want to do good, make money.
Feb 022022
Sane people throw themselves into politics only when the state has made normal life impossible, and by then it is too late.
Feb 012022
Any man who was not a Whig a hundred fifty years ago had no heart, and any man who is one today has no brains.
Jan 312022
Anything announced as voluntary is mandatory.
Jan 282022
All traits influenced by genetics differ across populations, and all traits are influenced by genetics.
Jan 272022
Girls are wiser about sex than boys, and far wiser than men.
Jan 262022
When making an example, always choose an innocent man: this cows innocent and guilty alike.