I’m Happy Living Small
Well, most of us, when we go out looking, as we do, for our lovers and our friends, we know it’s not just supposed to be about what looks good. We know it’s not really all about the Benjamins. Yeah, yeah, but business is a lot like love and business is a lot like friendship: [...]
A Moment’s Rest
I seldom give myself a moment’s rest: I demand greatness from myself in everything I do. Thus, to add a new activity is to court madness: I am often at a breakingpoint of stress from which I have just skill enough to slink back in time to avoid breakdown. No more stress can be added; [...]
Human Beings Must Never Submit To Animals
If there is any single value I hope to instill in my children, it is the rule the Bene Gesserit taught as their most central belief in Frank Herbert’s Dune: “human beings must never submit to animals.” This came to mind after remembering Mencken’s claim that the groups behind the Scopes’ trial “are nothing more, [...]
Quote Of The Day
Dude, they’re gonna play again.1 Overheard cellphone conversation of someone coming out of the Indecision reunion show.↩
The Obvious Traits By Which I Judge Women
The most obvious and essential traits by which I rate a potential girlfriend are intelligence, introversion, profundity, physical beauty, sensibility, goodwill, compassion and wisdom. Also very important to me are a love of culture and good taste in food, friends, music, art and literature.
The Law Of Inertia Applied To Men
A man stays on his current course in life unless a strong enough promise of something better diverts him.
Points Of Perspective
Our point of perspective determines our perceptions as much as the objects themselves — and any single observation, if held in spite of later, contradictory observations, can provide an image of a thing basically opposed to the image we ought to form of it. One can see this looking at nothing more complex than my [...]
A Refined Hedonism
Much of what has been called virtue — temperance, culture and so forth — is simply a very refined form of hedonism. Our frustration with others is born of no more than a feeling that they are not as refined as we are: but we then call this difference vice rather than lack of refinement. [...]
Living Small
I’m don’t know if I’ve seen a million faces. And I’m not sure if I’ve rocked them all. All I know is that I’ve met a lot of people, filled a lot of spaces, learned to jump and learned to take a fall. And if that’s not living large, then I’m happy living small.1 Jonah [...]
Quote Of The Day
I’ll burn down a church before I die.1 Frank, one of many singers for Shallow Water Grave↩