The eternal Manichean struggle is between not good and evil, but sloth and industry.
Apr 142020
Apr 132020
There is small reason to believe, outside of a few specialized fields, that a proposition is correct because it can be persuasively argued for.
Apr 102020
Money, n. Crystallized desire.
Apr 092020
It is an insult to be paid by the word.
Apr 082020
You never get a good piece of music stuck in your head, just an idiotically catchy pop song or advertising jingle; and ideas work the same way.
Apr 072020
In honest places the corrupt official cannot gauge his own worth, and comes cheap.
Apr 062020
Every modern religion denies, as a matter of theology, that it is a religion.
Apr 032020
A writer is a person who has turned the fact that his bark is worse than his bite into a professional qualification.
Apr 022020
If voting posed any threat to the reigning order, one would not be constantly exhorted to do it.
Apr 012020
The man a year ahead of his time is a success, the man a decade ahead is a bankrupt, and the man a century ahead is a lunatic.