Why should the qualities that make art good also make it last?

It isn't tolerance unless you disapprove.

We play with words when we run out of thoughts.

Clever lies are as common as clever truths are rare.

Writing and computer programming are usually done best for free and worst for money.

Civilization is always under attack, always crumbling, always burning; it ends when we can no longer repel the invaders, shore up the foundations, and extinguish the flames.

There is in America an unbridgeable psychological divide, made manifest every April 15th, between those who receive checks from the government and those who write them.

If it weren't for politics, I would have to refuse more invitations.

To speak of must-reads is to become a must-ignore.

The past also judges us, less indulgently than the future will.

Do social media dispense gold stars continuously because we are perpetual schoolchildren, or is it the other way around?

We invent most of what we purport to find in art, which we call great when our stories about it please us sufficiently.

The check is sometimes in the mail, but no one has ever been just curious.

The less disposed we are to act on a belief, the more vehemently we defend it.