We are to the immense wealth that swaddles us and the conditions that produced it as a fish to water — scarcely aware of it and shortly dead without it.
Aug 062021
Aug 052021
Technology makes all our dreams come true, nightmares included.
Aug 042021
A country can vote itself into a lot more trouble than it can vote itself out of.
Aug 032021
True believers make the best publicists, and they work cheap.
Aug 022021
If you want power, fame is a liability.
Jul 302021
To live is to close one’s options.
Jul 292021
The pretense that empty and prolix speeches are noble, that pedestrian performances are scintillating, that crude and mawkish poetry is stirring and profound — this celebration of kitsch is the most degrading aspect of official public spectacle.
Jul 282021
Nothing public can be conversation, and soon everything will be public.
Jul 272021
You have to spend money to lose money.
Jul 262021
Reading great authors improves your writing by making you desperately unhappy with it.