One may judge the esteem in which informants are held by comparing whistle-blower, on the one hand, with rat, nark, squealer, tattle-tale, stool-pigeon, fink, canary, and snitch, on the other.

Some people are Jews for the food, some for the jokes. Me, I'm in it for the anti-Semitism.

Witch hunts work especially well among people who are too sophisticated to believe in witches.

Everybody complains about getting older, but nobody does anything about it.

If you have become what you used to hate, you didn't hate it all that much in the first place.

Many academic fields are barren, most because there are no truths to discover, not a few because the practitioners are too dull to discover them.

Let epigones be epigones.

Identity politics debase not politics but identity.

The best way to die is all at once.

Socialization, n. Bullying.

In matters of opinion, the choices are anodyne or wrong; punditry is the art of combining them.

Opinion, like water services and electricity, appears to be a natural monopoly.

It is unfortunate that I forget so few of my thoughts.

To become an expert in something is the only way to learn that you know nothing about anything else.

The latest conveniences save time by making us feel that we have done something important without doing anything at all.

Good style confers unearned authority.

Marry a woman like yourself, and discover your flaws in her; or different, and let her discover them in you.

All issues appear to have two sides for the same reason a tetrahedron does; and our spatial is better than our logical perspective.

To recognize your betters you have to acknowledge that they exist.